In 2018, black Americans represented 33% of the sentenced prison population, nearly triple their 12% share of the U.S. prisons continues to look substantially different from the demographics of the country as a whole. The rate was even higher among black men in certain age groups: Among those ages 35 to 39, for example, about one-in-twenty black men were in state or federal prison in 2018 (5,008 inmates for every 100,000 black men in this age group). There were 2,272 inmates per 100,000 black men in 2018, compared with 1,018 inmates per 100,000 Hispanic men and 392 inmates per 100,000 white men.
The black imprisonment rate at the end of 2018 was nearly twice the rate among Hispanics (797 per 100,000) and more than five times the rate among whites (268 per 100,000).īlack men are especially likely to be imprisoned. While their rate of imprisonment has decreased the most in recent years, black Americans remain far more likely than their Hispanic and white counterparts to be in prison. It excludes inmates held in local jails and those sentenced to shorter periods of imprisonment. The analysis is based only on prisoners who have been sentenced to more than a year in state or federal prison. Black and white Americans include only those who are single race and non-Hispanic. Census Bureau’s 2018 American Community Survey. Data about the racial and ethnic composition of the U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics in April 2020 and January 2018. imprisonment rates by race and ethnicity is based on data published by the U.S.
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