small chart showing that while only 15 percent of U.S. adults have a disability, 40 percent of people in state prisons do

Data Source: Bureau of Justice Statistics’ Disabilities Reported by Prisoners Table 2 and the Census Bureau, American Community Survey, 2016. (Graph: Wendy Sawyer, 2022)

This graph originally appeared in Chronic Punishment: The unmet health needs of people in state prisons.



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