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American Indian and Alaska Native people have high rates of incarceration in both jails and prisons as compared with other racial and ethnic groups

Data Source: Bureau of Justice Statistics, Jail Inmates in 2019 and Prisoners in 2019, Appendix Table 2. Prison incarceration rates for AI/AN and Asian populations calculated by Prison Policy Initiative from Census 2010. (Graph: Emily Widra, 2021)

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

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