Graph showing that people detained pretrial because they cannot afford bail are much poorer than non-incarcerated people, and that the income gaps are widest for people of color

Data Source: For sourcing and data notes, see our report Detaining the Poor. (Graph: Wendy Sawyer, 2020)

This graph originally appeared in Visualizing the racial disparities in mass incarceration.

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