File:SentencingProjectData2005TableIIRacialRegionalVariationRGB.svg

US map colored statewise to demonstrate variation in racial composition of the state imprisonment rate of three groups. This is based on a Sentencing Project report of data from the Bureau of Justice Statistics, Prison and Jail Inmates at Midyear 2005. To visualize variation between states, the data is normalized to the national imprisonment rate: 2.290% for blacks, 0.742 for Hispanics, and 0.412% for whites. On the map, zero imprisonment would appear in black [0 of 255]. Imprisonment of all racial groups at the national average rate appears gray [110 of 255], as is depicted for Wyoming and New Mexico for which the Sentencing Project could not obtain useful ethnic data. (white asterisks) The maximum reported regional variation is for imprisonment of Hispanics in Pennsylvania, indicated by 255 of 255 green color value. Imprisonment of blacks is represented by the red color value, Hispanics by the green color value, and whites by the blue color value. Useful ethnic data for Hispanics could not be obtained in states marked by green asterisks, so the green color value for these is colored at the national average level. The authors of the original report caution that states reporting very low rates of Hispanic imprisonment may be undercounting this ethnicity.

The original data used to create this figure:

State White Black Hispanic Alabama 542 1916 NOT GIVEN Alaska 500 2163 380 Arizona 590 3294 1075 Arkansas 478 1846 288 California 460 2992 782 Colorado 525 3491 1042 Connecticut 211 2532 1401 Delaware 396 2517 683 DC 56 1065 267 Florida 588 2615 382 Georgia 623 2068 576 Hawaii 453 851 185 Idaho 675 2869 1654 Illinois 223 2020 415 Indiana 463 2526 579 Iowa 309 4200 764 Kansas 443 3096 NOT GIVEN Kentucky 561 2793 757 Louisiana 523 2452 244 Maine 262 1992 NOT GIVEN Maryland 288 1579 NOT GIVEN Massachusetts 201 1635 1229 Michigan 412 2262 397 Minnesota 212 1937 NOT GIVEN Mississippi 503 1742 611 Missouri 487 2556 587 Montana 433 3569 846 Nebraska 290 2418 739 Nevada 627 2916 621 New Hampshire 289 2666 1063 New Jersey 190 2352 630 New York 174 1627 778 North Carolina 320 1727 NOT GIVEN North Dakota 267 2683 848 Ohio 344 2196 613 Oklahoma 740 3252 832 Oregon 502 2930 573 Pennsylvania 305 2792 1714 Rhode Island 191 1838 631 South Carolina 415 1856 476 South Dakota 470 4710 NOT GIVEN Tennessee 487 2006 561 Texas 667 3162 830 Utah 392 3588 838 Vermont 304 3797 NOT GIVEN Virginia 396 2331 487 Washington 393 2522 527 West Virginia 392 2188 211 Wisconsin 415 4416 NOT GIVEN