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.