Jail incarceration rates fell for Black and Hispanic people but rose for Whites, 2005-2017

Evidence

In 2005, jail incarceration rate for Whites was 167 (per 1,000 individuals), for Blacks 803, and for Hispanics 263. Twelve years later, in 2017, the corresponding rates were 187, 616, and 185. — Joseph Avery, Jim Sidanius, Joel Cooper, Gregory Davis, Amanda N., Bias in the Law, 621

Categorization

• XREF: The Black-to-White jail ratio narrowing from 4.8 to 3.3 captures the overall decline in racial disparities, building on the chapter’s earlier documented racial gaps. — connects to: Modern US mass incarceration dwarfs prior decades and falls on people of color. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 22; Prison incarceration rates for the truly proletarian were equal across race — Noel Ignatiev, How the Irish Became White, 171
• CANDY: A striking two-line stat: Black jail incarceration fell from 803 to 616 per 1,000 while White rates rose.