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Bar charts showing that in Ohio prisons and jails, incarceration rates are highest for Black residents.
- Updated data and charts: Incarceration stats by race, ethnicity, and ...
Updated data and charts: Incarceration stats by race,...
- Updated data and charts: Incarceration stats by race, ethnicity, and ...
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.
Bar chart showing that compared to the total state population, Black people are overrepresented in the incarcerated population, while white people are underrepresented.
Racial Disparities in Incarceration. The gap between incarceration rates for Black and white people has narrowed in recent years. However, people of color―and Black people in particular―are still incarcerated at strikingly higher rates than white people in jails and prisons across the country.
In Ohio, Black people constituted 13% of state residents, but 34% of people in jail and 45% 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.
Imprisonment Per 100,000 Residents The following table presents state rates of incarceration by race and ethnicity according to their rank from highest Black incarceration rate to lowest (Table 1). The states with the highest rate of African American incarceration are Wisconsin, Oklahoma, Idaho, and Montana.
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.
