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Graph showing Black men made up 40% of all incarcerated men and 42% of all new HIV diagnoses of men in 2010, despite making up only 12% of the total male U.S. population

Data Source: Percentages calculated by the Prison Policy Initiative from U.S. Census 2010 Summary File 1 Table P22 and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, HIV Surveillance Report, 2010 Table 3a. (Graph: Peter Wagner, 2017)

This graph originally appeared in The parallel epidemics of incarceration & HIV in the Deep South.

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