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DescriptionU.S. incarceration rate by race 2.gif	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. Source of data for chart: Prison and Jail Inmates at Midyear 2006 (NCJ 217675). U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics. The percentages are for adult males, and are from page 1 of the PDF file. "On June 30, 2006, an estimated 4.8% of black men were in prison or jail, compared to 1.9% of Hispanic men and 0.7% of white men. 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."
Date	28 September 2010, 16:15 (UTC)
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Author	U.S._incarceration_rate_by_race.gif: November Coalition. http://www.november.org Sentence with November.org contact info removed from the bottom of the chart by User:Timeshifter. See Commons:Watermarks. The text at the right top of the chart was added by User:Timeshifter, and Timeshifter puts the revised chart in the public domain also. The text was added using IrfanView, 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. derivative work: Timeshifter (talk)

Newer data: 2009 data is in Tables 18 and 19 in Prison Inmates at Midyear 2009 (NCJ 230113):

The 2 tables have separate rates for males and females. Also by year from 2000-2009. Also by age groups.

Adult male incarceration rates for 2009 per 100,000 population of adult males by race and ethnicity:

 Total 	   1,398
 White 	     708
 Black 	   4,749
 Hispanic  1,822

2010 incarceration rates by race and gender per 100,000 US residents of all ages (adult rates would be higher):

Correctional Populations in the United States, 2010 (NCJ 236319). US Bureau of Justice Statistics, published December 2011. See Appendix Table 3 for "Estimated number of inmates held in custody in state or federal prisons or in local jails per 100,000 U.S. residents, by sex, race and Hispanic/Latino origin, and age, June 30, 2010". See Appendix Table 2 for the overall incarceration rates, and the adult incarceration rates.

Ethnicity	Male	Female	Total
White non-Hispanic	678	91	-
Black non-Hispanic	4,347	260	-
Hispanic of any race	1,775	133	-
All inmates	1,352	126	732

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	Date/Time	Dimensions	User	Comment
current	04:36, 20 April 2012	430 × 327 (20 KB)	Timeshifter	"America's male prisoners..."
	04:14, 20 April 2012	432 × 329 (20 KB)	Timeshifter	Text clarified further. Percentages to 2 digits.
	06:19, 29 July 2011	419 × 304 (18 KB)	Timeshifter	Cleaner version without artifacts (dots). Also, it uses less kilobytes. I used the freeware IrfanView image editor to add text to the original chart that was uploaded 28 September 2010.
	16:15, 31 May 2011	419 × 304 (31 KB)	Innab	Clarification that this is males-only
	16:18, 28 September 2010	419 × 304 (21 KB)	Timeshifter	{{Information \|Description=Rate of U.S. imprisonment per 100,000 population of adult males by race and ethnicity in 2006. Jails and prisons. \|Source=File:U.S._incarceration_rate_by_race.gif \|Date=2010-09-28 16:15 (UTC) \|Author=[[:File:U.S._incarce