<p>Rate of U.S. imprisonment per 100,000 population of adult males by race and ethnicity in 2006. Jails and prisons. On June 30, 2006, an estimated 4.8% of black non-Hispanic men were in prison or jail, compared to 1.9% of Hispanic men of any race, and 0.7% of white non-Hispanic men. <b>Source of data for chart:</b>
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<ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://bjs.ojp.usdoj.gov/index.cfm?ty=pbdetail&amp;iid=1006"><i>Prison and Jail Inmates at Midyear 2006</i></a> (NCJ 217675). <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Bureau_of_Justice_Statistics" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics">U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics.</a> The percentages are for adult males, and are from page 1 of the <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://bjs.ojp.usdoj.gov/content/pub/pdf/pjim06.pdf">PDF file</a>.</li></ul><dl><dd>"On June 30, 2006, an estimated <b>4.8% of black men</b> were in prison or jail, compared to <b>1.9% of Hispanic men</b> and <b>0.7% of white men.</b> More than 11% of black males age 25 to 34 were incarcerated. Black women were incarcerated in prison or jail at nearly 4 times the rate of white women and more than twice the rate of Hispanic women."</dd></dl>
<ul><li><a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:U.S._incarceration_rate_by_race.gif" title="File:U.S. incarceration rate by race.gif">U.S._incarceration_rate_by_race.gif</a>: November Coalition. <a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="http://www.november.org">http://www.november.org</a> <br></li></ul><p>Sentence with <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.november.org">November.org</a> contact info removed from the bottom of the chart by <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Timeshifter" title="User:Timeshifter">User:Timeshifter</a>. See <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Watermarks" title="Commons:Watermarks">Commons:Watermarks</a>. The text at the right top of the chart was added by <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Timeshifter" title="User:Timeshifter">User:Timeshifter</a>, and Timeshifter puts the revised chart in the public domain also. The text was added using <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IrfanView" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:IrfanView">IrfanView</a>, a popular freeware image editor. Go to the edit menu, and then to "insert text into selection." IrfanView was also used to slightly correct the length of the middle column. 
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