Chart showing Black people are incarcerated in prison at a higher rate than any other race, 911 per 100,000.

Data Source: Bureau of Justice Statistics, Prisoners in 2022, Table 5. (Graph: Leah Wang, 2024)

This graph originally appeared in Updated charts show the magnitude of prison and jail racial disparities, pretrial populations, correctional control, and more.

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