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From The Bureau of Justice Statistics, the "Prisoners in 2015" report, table 8, page 13 [0]: >Percent of sentenced prisoners under the jurisdiction of state or
by 24gttghh 9y ago
From The Bureau of Justice Statistics, the "Prisoners in 2015" report, table 8, page 13 [0]:
>Percent of sentenced prisoners under the jurisdiction of state or federal correctional authorities, by age, sex, race, and Hispanic
origin, December 31, 2015
446,700 white male prisoners
501,300 black male prisoners
301,500 hispanic male prisoners
122,400 other male prisoners
Which means male adults of color (925,200) make up more than double the male white adult (446,700) state/federal prison population.
[0]https://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/p15.pdf https://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/p15.pdf
The more disturbing statistic being that 1,745/100,000 black adults are incarcerated, compared to 317/100,000 white adults.
Female incarceration rates do not follow this same trend identically according to the data, and they make up only ~7% of the total correctional population.