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Unconditional releases: U.S. states ranked (2023)

Measure: Unconditional releases. All 48 states with data in Prison admissions and releases by state, ranked from highest to lowest. Reference period: 2023.

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Public domain (U.S. federal government work).
Data last updated
2026-11-03
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National value: 106,603 (United States).

Washington: 1,383Idaho: 552Montana: 195North Dakota: 124Minnesota: 300Michigan: 333Ohio: 5,657Pennsylvania: 1,982New York: 337Vermont: 107New Hampshire: 145Maine: 327Arizona: 1,822California: 208New Mexico: 536Texas: 7,539Louisiana: 943Mississippi: 550Alabama: 2,055Florida: 14,826Georgia: 7,287South Carolina: 1,509North Carolina: 1,447Virginia: not in this tableDistrict of Columbia: not in this tableMaryland: 1,465Delaware: 106New Jersey: 2,746Connecticut: 1,280Rhode Island: not in this tableMassachusetts: 656Oregon: 37Utah: 307Wyoming: 200Nevada: 1,035Colorado: 723South Dakota: 206Nebraska: 695Kansas: 133Oklahoma: 2,785Iowa: 832Missouri: 796Wisconsin: 90Illinois: 3,031Kentucky: 3,761Arkansas: 599Tennessee: 3,663West Virginia: 553Indiana: 724Alaska: 1,082Hawaii: 366

Small states, hard to see on the map:

  • Lowest: 37 to 206
  • Group 2: 206 to 552
  • Group 3: 552 to 943
  • Group 4: 943 to 2,055
  • Highest: 2,055 to 14,826
The map is a visual summary; every value is in the table below, which is the keyboard and screen-reader path. Groups are quintiles of the values shown (a derived grouping). Boundaries: Natural Earth (public domain), simplified. Alaska and Hawaii are shown as insets, not to scale.

Rank is derived by Quadranac: 1 = highest value; ties share a rank. Values are as published in the source table.

1Florida14,826
2Texas7,539
3Georgia7,287
4Ohio5,657
5Kentucky3,761
6Tennessee3,663
7Illinois3,031
8Oklahoma2,785
9New Jersey2,746
10Alabama2,055
11Pennsylvania1,982
12Arizona1,822
13South Carolina1,509
14Maryland1,465
15North Carolina1,447
16Washington1,383
17Connecticut1,280
18Alaska1,082
19Nevada1,035
20Louisiana943
21Iowa832
22Missouri796
23Indiana724
24Colorado723
25Nebraska695
26Massachusetts656
27Arkansas599
28West Virginia553
29Idaho552
30Mississippi550
31New Mexico536
32Hawaii366
33New York337
34Michigan333
35Maine327
36Utah307
37Minnesota300
38California208
39South Dakota206
40Wyoming200
41Montana195
42New Hampshire145
43Kansas133
44North Dakota124
45Vermont107
46Delaware106
47Wisconsin90
48Oregon37

Source: U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics, Prisoners in 2023 – Statistical Tables (NCJ 310197), table 8 (admissions) and 9 (releases). Reference period: 2023.

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U.S. states ranked by unconditional releases (2023). Data: U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics, Prisoners in 2023 – Statistical Tables (NCJ 310197), table 8 and 9; rank derived by Quadranac. Data last updated 2026-11-03. https://quadranac.com/rankings/us-states-by-unconditional-releases/

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