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You hit the proverbial nail right on the head.

[WilliamofCarmichael]

Here are the 2013 city and county jail numbers, 731,208, if I read the documents correctly. With the federal prisoners that makes about one million. The article said that there were 2.2 million. I guess state prisons hold 1.2 million. I'll try to find the numbers.

Jail Inmates at Midyear 2013 - Statistical Tables

U.S. Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs Bureau of Justice Statistics

Table 2 Number of inmates in local jails, by characteristics, midyear 2000 and 2005–2013

Characteristic	2000	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011a	2012a	2013a
Totalb	621,149	747,529	765,819	780,174	785,533	767,434	748,728	735,601	744,524	731,208
Sex
Male	550,162	652,958	666,819	679,654	685,862	673,728	656,360	642,300	645,900	628,900
Female	70,987	94,571	99,000	100,520	99,670	93,706	92,368	93,300	98,600	102,400
Adult	613,534	740,770	759,717	773,341	777,829	760,216	741,168	729,700	739,100	726,600
Male	543,120	646,807	661,164	673,346	678,657	667,039	649,284	636,900	640,900	624,700
Female	70,414	93,963	98,552	99,995	99,172	93,176	91,884	92,800	98,100	101,900
Juvenilec	7,615	6,759	6,102	6,833	7,703	7,218	7,560	5,900	5,400	4,600
Held as adultd	6,126	5,750	4,835	5,649	6,410	5,846	5,647	4,600	4,600	3,500
Held as juvenile	1,489	1,009	1,268	1,184	1,294	1,373	1,912	1,400	900	1,100
Race/Hispanic origine
Whitef	260,500	331,000	336,500	338,200	333,300	326,400	331,600	329,400	341,100	344,900
Black/African Americanf	256,300	290,500	295,900	301,700	308,000	300,500	283,200	276,400	274,600	261,500
Hispanic/Latino	94,100	111,900	119,200	125,500	128,500	124,000	118,100	113,900	112,700	107,900
American Indian/Alaska Nativef,g	5,500	7,600	8,400	8,600	9,000	9,400	9,900	9,400	9,300	10,200
Asian/Native Hawaiian/ Other Pacific Islanderf,g	4,700	5,400	5,100	5,300	5,500	5,400	5,100	5,300	5,400	5,100
Two or more racesf	...	1,000	700	800	1,300	1,800	800	1,200	1,500	1,600

Note: Detail may not sum to total due to rounding. ...Not collected.

a - Data for 2011-2013 are adjusted for nonresponse and rounded to the nearest 100.

b - Midyear count is the number of inmates held on the last weekday in June.

c - Persons age 17 or younger at midyear.

d - Includes juveniles who were tried or awaiting trial as adults.

e - Data adjusted for nonresponse and rounded to the nearest 100. See Methodology.

f - Excludes persons of Hispanic or Latino origin.

g - Previous reports combined American Indians and Alaska Natives and Asians, Native Hawaiians, and other Pacific Islanders into an Other race category.

Sources: Bureau of Justice Statistics, Annual Survey of Jails, 2000 and midyear 2006–2013, and the 2005 Census of Jail Inmates.

I have not yet double checked these figures but I merely copied the table image text and numbers then added the HTML. They should be correct but I'll double check before I keep this in my files.