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Bar charts showing that in Kentucky prisons and jails, incarceration rates are highest for Black residents.
- Comparing Kentucky's total population to its incarcerated population ...
Bar chart showing that compared to the total state...
- Comparing Kentucky's total population to its incarcerated population ...
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Bar chart showing that compared to the total state population, Black people are overrepresented in the incarcerated population, while white and Hispanic people are underrepresented.
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.
women in prison has increased 2,317%. In Kentucky, Black people constituted 9% of state residents, but 22% of people in jail and 21% of people in prison. RACE GENDER GEOGRAPHY Since 1970, the total jail population has increased 740%. In 2015, pretrial detainees constituted 43% of the total jail population in Kentucky. Since 1983, the prison custody
• Black Americans are incarcerated in state prisons at nearly 5 times the rate of white Americans. • Nationally, one in 81 Black adults in the U.S. is serving time in state prison. 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
8 wrz 2016 · According to the Department of Public Advocacy, the rate of imprisonment is: 460 white inmates for every 100,000 whites in the population and 1,479 African Americans for every 100,000 African Americans in the population.
