US prison population exploded tenfold while remaining majority people of color

Evidence

When I first became involved in antiprison activism during the late 1960s, I was astounded to learn that there were then close to two hundred thousand people in prison. Had anyone told me that in three decades ten times as many people would be locked away in cages, I would have been absolutely incredulous. — Davis, Angela Y, Are Prisons Obsolete, 17 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: 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; People of color form a third of the population but three-quarters of US prisoners.; U.S. prison population grew tenfold in three decades (+11 more)

Broader Connections

• U.S. prison population grew tenfold in three decades #corroborates (0.97)
• The U.S. prison population grew tenfold in three decades, to two million. #corroborates (0.97) — Davis, Angela Y, Are Prisons Obsolete, 17
• Black and Latino people exceed 60 percent of the US prison population. #corroborates (0.92)
• Jail incarceration rates fell for Black and Hispanic people but rose for Whites, 2005-2017 #complicates (0.74) — Joseph Avery, Jim Sidanius, Joel Cooper, Gregory Davis, Amanda N., Bias in the Law, 621
• Racial gaps in jail incarceration narrowed between 2005 and 2017 #complicates (0.72)