At the end of 2001, about 16.6 percent of adult black males were current or former inmates, compared to 7.7 percent of Hispanic males and 2.6 percent of white males. Among black males 35 to 44 years of age, 22 percent were current or former prisoners, compared to 10 percent of Hispanic males and 3.5 percent of white males in the same age group.
Prevalence rates at the end of 2001 were lower among females, with 1.7 percent of black females, 0.7 percent of Hispanic females and 0.3 percent of white females having ever been incarcerated.
| Stu Smith's Bureau of Justice Statistics release "More than 5.6 million U.S. residents have served or are serving time in state and federal prisons" points to statistician Thomas P. Bonczar's "Prevalence of Imprisonment in the U.S. Populations, 1974-2001" in HTML format
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