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Side-by-side charts showing that while 50 percent of people in state prison had no health insurance before they were arrested, 91 percent of the overall population had insurance in 2016, and furthermore that among those who had health insurance, a disproportionate 32 percent received Medicaid, compared to 21 percent of the U.S. population

Data Source: Bureau of Justice Statistics’ Survey of Prison Inmates 2016 & U.S. Census Bureau, Health Insurance Coverage in the United States: 2016. (Graph: Leah Wang, 2022)

This graph originally appeared in Chronic Punishment: The unmet health needs of people in state prisons.

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