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The Prison Policy Initiative uses research, advocacy, and organizing to dismantle mass incarceration. We’ve been in this movement for 23 years, thanks to individual donors like you.
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Thank you,
Peter Wagner, Executive Director Donate
Data Source: Bureau of Justice Statistics’ Survey of Prison Inmates, 2016 data analyzed by the Prison Policy Initiative, and U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2016, Table DP05. (Graph: Leah Wang, 2022)
This graph originally appeared in Beyond the count: A deep dive into state prison populations.
All categories other than Hispanic include only those identifying as non-Hispanic. The Census Bureau collects data on Asian and Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander people separately; the U.S. population was 5.2% Asian and 0.2% Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander. The underlying data for this graphic can be found in the report’s appendix tables.
