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27 wrz 2023 · Updated data and charts: Incarceration stats by race, ethnicity, and gender for all 50 states and D.C. New data visualizations and updated tables show the national landscape of persistent racial disparity in state prisons and local jails. by Leah Wang, September 27, 2023
31 paź 2024 · People of color―and Black people in particular―are incarcerated at strikingly higher rates than white people in jails and prisons across the country. These racial disparities reflect a system that treats Black people more harshly than white people at every stage of the criminal legal process.
1 kwi 2024 · Since 2020, the Bureau of Justice Statistics has reported on more racial and ethnic categories in jail populations, as well as prison populations by sex. These new statistics underscore the ongoing racial injustice of prisons, where the national incarceration rate of Black people is six times the rate of white people and more than twice the ...
In 2020, the largest jail population declines were in rural areas, declining by 60,400 people between midyear 2019 and 2020—a 33 percent reduction. However, from mid- to late 2020, the number of people in rural jails grew by 10,600 people, a 9 percent increase.
27 lip 2020 · These charts provide a fuller picture of racial inequality in the criminal justice system, and make clear that a broad transformation will be needed to uproot the racial injustice of mass incarceration.
13 paź 2021 · This report documents the rates of incarceration for white, Black and Latinx Americans in each state, identifies three contributors to racial and ethnic disparities in imprisonment, and provides recommendations for reform.
Imprisonment Rate. The total prison population in a jurisdiction as a proportion of every 100,000 residents in that jurisdiction. Data from Bureau of Justice Statistics, 2022. Learn more about imprisonment rate
