Criminal Offenders Statistics
If recent incarceration
rates remain unchanged, an estimated 1 of every 15 persons (6.6%) will
serve time in a prison during their lifetime.
Lifetime chances
of a person going to prison are higher for
- -- men (11.3%)
than for women (1.8%)
-- blacks
(18.6%) and Hispanics (10%) than for whites (3.4%)
Based on current
rates of first incarceration, an estimated 32% of black males will enter
State or Federal prison during their lifetime, compared to 17% of Hispanic
males and 5.9% of white males.
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