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27 wrz 2023 · Updated charts provide insights on racial disparities, correctional control, jail suicides, and more + Policing Women: Race and gender disparities in police stops, searches, and use of force + Unpacking the connections between race, incarceration, and women’s HIV rates +
Bar charts showing that in Alabama prisons and jails, incarceration rates are highest for Black residents.
In Alabama, Black people constituted 28% of state residents, but 43% of people in jail and 54% of people in prison. Incarceration is not only an urban phenomenon. In fact, on a per capita basis, the most rural places in the state often lock up the most people in jail and send the most people to prison.
Racial/ethnic disparities in incarceration by state, 2021. These graphs are a part of our 50-state incarceration profiles. Comparing Alabama's total population to its incarcerated population, by race (2023) Comparing Alaska's total population to its incarcerated population, by race (2023)
13 paź 2021 · Wisconsin leads the nation in Black imprisonment rates; one of every 36 Black Wisconsinites is in prison. In 12 states, more than half the prison population is Black: Alabama, Delaware, Georgia, Illinois, Louisiana, Maryland, Michigan, Mississippi, New Jersey, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Virginia.
prisoners by race and ethnicity as a proportion of their representation in the state’s overall general population, or the rate per 100,000 residents.9 Looking at all states together (Figure 1) we see that at the national level, Black people are incarcerated at a rate of 1240 per 100,000 while white people are incarcerated at a rate
31 paź 2024 · Racial disparities in incarceration cause disproportionate economic, health, and social harms to communities of color. Use the charts below to compare incarceration rates for each racial group. Incarcerated population vs resident population. Jail population rate per 100K residents ages 15 to 64.
