Native women are incarcerated at a higher rate than any other race

Data Source: Calculated by the Prison Policy Initiative from U.S. Census 2010 Summary File 1. For the full data set and sourcing details, see https://www.prisonpolicy.org/data/race_ethnicity_gender_2010.xlsx. These data cannot be updated with 2020 data until 2022. (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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