A scatter plot showing the relationship between poverty rate and imprisonment rate. The image shows a strong correlation across thousands of Census tracts in New York State; for every 1% increase in the percentage of people in poverty, the imprisonment rate increases by 18 people per every 100,000 residents.

Data Source: For data sourcing see, https://www.prisonpolicy.org/origin/ny/report.html. (Graph: Wendy Sawyer, 2020)

This graph originally appeared in Mapping disadvantage: The geography of incarceration in New York State.

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