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From the source report: "This graph shows the number of people in state prisons, local jails, federal prisons, and other systems of confinement from each U.S. state and territory per 100,000 people in that state or territory and the incarceration rate per 100,000 in all countries with a total population of at least 500,000." [26]
Nationally, one in 81 African American adults are serving time in America's state prisons. Black Americans are imprisoned at 5 times the rate of white people, and American Indians and Hispanic people are imprisoned at 4 times and 2 times the white rate, respectively. [2]
One out of every 15 people imprisoned across the world is a Black American incarcerated in the United States. [66] A 2004 study reported that the majority of people sentenced to prison in the United States are Black, and almost one-third of Black men in their twenties are either on parole, on probation, or in prison. [67]
At least 190 people have been exonerated from death row in the U.S. since 1973, largely Black and Latinx inmates who are wrongfully convicted at a higher rate than white people, according to the ...
According to the United States Bureau of Justice, in 2014 6% of all Black males ages 30 to 39 were in prison, while 2% of Hispanic and 1% of White males in the same age group were in prison. There were 2,724 Black male prisoners with sentences over one year per 100,000 Black male residents in the United States, and a total of 516,900 Black male ...
[3] [1] In 2021, the United States had 1,767,200 inmates in adult facilities (prisons and jails). [3] This left America with the highest prison population if China's latest official number (2018) of 1,690,000 (sentenced prisoners only) were used.
An estimated 4.6 million people in the United States cannot vote due to a felony conviction. Washington has already taken steps to change that, having restored voting rights to incarcerated people ...
As of October 1, 2024, there were 2,180 death row inmates in the United States, including 49 women. [1] The number of death row inmates changes frequently with new convictions, appellate decisions overturning conviction or sentence alone, commutations, or deaths (through execution or otherwise). [2]