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Graph showing that Native Hawaiians are overrepresented in Hawaiian prisons and jails. Native Hawaiians are 9.4% of the state population, but 22.3% of the people in prisons and jails.

Data Source: U.S. Census 2000. (Graph: Peter Wagner, May 2004)

Graph is a part of Racial disparities in incarceration by state.

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