Data Source: Bureau of Justice Statistics' Survey of Prison Inmates, 2016 data analyzed by the Prison Policy Initiative & U.S. Census Bureau, Current Population Survey, 2016 Annual Social and Economic Supplement 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.