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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.
Bar charts showing that in Virginia prisons and jails, incarceration rates are highest for Black residents.
Bar chart showing that compared to the total state population, Black people are overrepresented in the incarcerated population, while white, Hispanic, and Asian people are underrepresented.
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. Wisconsin has the highest rate of incarceration
5 paź 2023 · Virginia's prison population has racial disparities, according to a new report. Black people in Virginia are incarcerated at a rate that is four times the rate for white people.
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.
report examines racial and ethnic dynamics of incarceration by state and highlights new information that extends the findings of previous analyses 7 by including data on jail populations and the impact of incarceration on the
