bar graphs showing incarceration of Native people in local jails and of incarceration in Indian Country jails between 2000 and 2018

Data Source: Bureau of Justice Statistics series Jails in Indian Country, 2000-2018, Jail Inmates at Midyear 2013, and Jail Inmates 2019. (Graph: Wendy Sawyer, 2021)

This graph originally appeared in The U.S. criminal justice system disproportionately hurts Native people: the data, visualized.

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