chart showing educational attainment before admission to prison, by race, and that over two-thirds of Black & Hispanic people in prison have less than a high school diploma

Data Source: Bureau of Justice Statistics' Survey of Prison Inmates, 2016 data analyzed by the Prison Policy Initiative & U.S. Census Bureau, Current Population Survey, 2016 Annual Social and Economic Supplement Table 1. (Graph: Wendy Sawyer, 2022)

This graph originally appeared in Beyond the Count: A deep dive into state prison populations.

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