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Summary

Rate of U.S. imprisonment per 100,000 population of adult males by race and ethnicity in 2006. Jails and prisons. On June 30, 2006, an estimated 4.8% of black non-Hispanic men were in prison or jail, compared to 1.9% of Hispanic men of any race, and 0.7% of white non-Hispanic men. Source of data for chart:

• <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://bjs.ojp.usdoj.gov/index.cfm?ty=pbdetail&iid=1006">Prison and Jail Inmates at Midyear 2006</a> (NCJ 217675). <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Bureau_of_Justice_Statistics" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics">U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics.</a> The percentages are for adult males, and are from page 1 of the <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://bjs.ojp.usdoj.gov/content/pub/pdf/pjim06.pdf">PDF file</a>.

"On June 30, 2006, an estimated 4.8% of black men were in prison or jail, compared to 1.9% of Hispanic men and 0.7% of white men. More than 11% of black males age 25 to 34 were incarcerated. Black women were incarcerated in prison or jail at nearly 4 times the rate of white women and more than twice the rate of Hispanic women."

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