graph showing the Black people are incarcerated in local jails at three times the rate of white people.

Data Source: Bureau of Justice Statistics Jail Inmates in 2018 Table 2. (Graph: Wendy Sawyer, 2020)

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

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