U.S. Federal Bureau of Prisons: Criminal Alien Report January 2020
February 7, 2020
By David Olen Cross
The United States having a significant foreign national population residing within the nations boundaries, be they legally or illegally present in the country, unfortunately includes those who commit crimes.
The extent and impact of foreign national crime on the U.S. citizens and residents of this country is clearly revealed by a simple search on the U.S. Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) inmates statistics website under the heading of inmate citizenship.
Here are the countries of origin, moreover, the number and percentage of those countries citizens recently incarcerated in the U.S. BOP prison system (Note: The most recent BOP crime numbers available were from January 25, 2020.).
Inmate Citizenship:
– Mexico 19,761 inmates, 11.3 percent;
– Colombia 1,623 inmates, 0.9 percent;
– Dominican Republic 1,440 inmates, 0.8 percent;
– Cuba 1,081 inmates, 0.6 percent;
– Other / unknown countries 8,929 inmates, 5.1 percent;
– United States 141,835 inmates, 81.2 percent;
Total Inmates: 174,669 inmates.
To explain the meaning of these preceding criminal alien inmate numbers and percentages, I will translate them into words:
Combining January 25th BOP criminal alien inmate numbers, there were 32,834 criminal aliens in the BOP prison system. Alien inmates were 18.8 percent of the federal prison population.
With 19,761 Mexican nationals being incarcerated in the BOP prison system, at 60.2 percent, they were the vast majority of criminal aliens in federal prisons.
The U.S. Federal Bureau of Prisons breaks down the federal prison population into 13 types of offenses. One of the top five offenses, the reason inmates are serving time in federal prisons is for immigration crimes. There were 9,719 inmates in the BOP prison system incarcerated for immigration crimes; they were 6.0 percent of the federal prison population.
David Olen Cross of Salem, Oregon is a crime researcher who writes on immigration issues and foreign national crime. The preceding report is a service to federal, state, county and city elected and non elected governmental officials to help them assess the impact of foreign national crime in the United States of America. He can be reached at docfnc@yahoo.com. His current and past crime reports can be found at https://docfnc.wordpress.com/.
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