Bar chart showing the number of Native people in jail depending on other claimed races or Hispanic ethnicity

Data Source: Bureau of Justice Statistics, American Indian and Alaska Natives in Local Jails, 1999-2014. (Graph: Leah Wang, 2021)

This graph originally appeared in The U.S. criminal justice system disproportionately hurts Native people: the data, visualized.

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