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Bar charts showing that in Kentucky prisons and jails, incarceration rates are highest for Black residents.
27 wrz 2023 · Every state incarcerates Black residents in its state prisons at a higher rate than white residents. For comparisons to other race/ethnicity categories, see individual state profile pages. Readers can also use this new and comprehensive dataset to see, for example, how states handle women’s incarceration very differently:
13 paź 2021 · 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.
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.
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:
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
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.
