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Chart showing that in state prisons, women of all races are more likely than men to have received any mental health diagnosis. For both men and women, diagnoses are most common among multiracial, Native, and white people

Data Source: Bureau of Justice Statistics’ Survey of Prison Inmates 2016 data analyzed by the Prison Policy Initiative. (Graph: Wendy Sawyer, 2022)

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

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