Line chart of the number of juveniles and adult males and adult females who are in the jail population from 1990 to 2007 (three lines, one for each status). Throughout the period, the adult male population has been the largest, followed by the adult females and juveniles.
For adult males, the number of jail inmates began at 365,821 in 1990 and increased to 673,697 in 2007.
For adult females, the number of jail inmates began at 37,198 in 1990 and increased to 100,047 in 2007.
For juveniles, the number of jail inmates began at 2,301 in 1990 and rose to 9,458 in 1999. Then the number fell to 6,837 in 2007.