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Chart showing that non-heterosexual people in prison are sexually victimized by both staff and other incarcerated people at higher rates than straight people in prison

Data Source: Bureau of Justice Statistics, Sexual Victimization in Prisons and Jails Reported by Inmates, 2011–12. (Graph: Alexi Jones, 2021)

This graph originally appeared in Visualizing the unequal treatment of LGBTQ people in the criminal justice system.

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