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Bar charts showing that in Kentucky prisons and jails, incarceration rates are highest for Black residents.
Black people in Kentucky are incarcerated at a rate 2.9 times higher than white people. charges up to 44¢ for an e-message to or from prison, among the highest rates in the nation. Jails in Kentucky charge up to $3.15 for a 15-minute phone call, reaping profits for companies, while prisons charge $2.10 for a 15-minute call.
27 wrz 2023 · We used the data to compare Black and white imprisonment rates by state, finding that every state locks up Black people at a rate at least double that of white people — and, on average, at six times the rate of white residents: Every state incarcerates Black residents in its state prisons at a higher rate than white residents.
28 kwi 2023 · Kentucky incarcerated 32,351 people in 2022 in both local jails and state prisons. That’s a 10% increase from the pandemic low of 28,892 in 2020 and a 250% increase from the 9,247 incarcerated in 1985.
15 paź 2024 · At yearend 2022, an estimated 32% of sentenced state and federal prisoners were black; 31% were white; 23% were Hispanic; 2% were American Indian or Alaska Native; and 1% were Asian, Native Hawaiian, or Other Pacific Islander.
12 wrz 2023 · Kentucky’s jail and prison rate more than tripled from 1985 to 2018, according to a report released last month by the Vera Institute for Justice, a New York based research and advocacy group...
8 wrz 2016 · Despite the majority of inmates in Kentucky being white, African Americans are disproportionately represented in the state’s criminal justice system. African Americans are eight percent of the adult population but:
