![]() ![]() Census counts to measure each state’s incarceration rates by race and ethnicity. This report endeavors to meet this data need to the extent possible with existing data by using 2010 U.S. Unfortunately, these state-level statistics have not been updated in eight years. Until 2006, researchers, advocates, and policymakers could rely on state-level race and ethnicity incarceration rate data from the Bureau of Justice Statistics “Prisons and Jails at Midyear” series. It is imperative that we are able to measure the extent to which the criminal justice system disparately impacts our communities. Social science research has time and again come to the robust conclusion that exposure to the criminal justice system has profound and intergenerational negative effects on communities that experience disproportionate incarceration rates. Census, Blacks are incarcerated five times more than Whites are, and Hispanics are nearly twice as likely to be incarcerated as Whites: The racial and ethnic make-up of incarcerated populations is dramatically different from that of the U.S. incarceration rates in every region of the country. A closer look at which communities are most heavily impacted by mass incarceration reveals stark racial and ethnic disparities in U.S. incarceration rate far beyond that of any other nation in the world. ![]() Over the last four decades, the United States has undertaken a national project of over criminalization that has put more than two million people behind bars at any given time, and brought the U.S. ![]()
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