Data Source: Bureau of Justice Statistics’ Survey of Prison Inmates, 2016 data analyzed by the Prison Policy Initiative & the Bureau of Justice Statistics’ reports Survey of State Prison Inmates, 1991, page 3, and Profile of Prison Inmates, 2016, Table 1. (Graph: Wendy Sawyer, 2022)
This graph originally appeared in Beyond the count: A deep dive into state prison populations.
The underlying data for this graphic can be found in the report’s appendix tables.
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