graph showing that people held pretrial are disproportionately Black and Hispanic, and that the pretrial population has more than doubled over the past 15 years

Data Source: Bureau of Justice Statistics, Profile of Jail Inmates 2002, Table 1 & Jail Inmates in 2017, Table 3. (Graph: Wendy Sawyer, 2020)

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

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