Keywords: U.S. incarceration rate by race.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 Note Please do not overwrite this chart with later versions Newer versions of this chart should be uploaded to a different page This 2006 chart is the basis for derivative charts http //november org/graphs/RacePrison gif - older version See date on chart November Coalition http //www november org <br> Sentence with November org contact info removed from the bottom of the chart by User Timeshifter See Commons Watermarks See license information section below http //www november org/graphs is a November Coalition page with charts That page says These graphs are in the public domain U S incarceration rate by race 2 gif http //www november org/graphs The November Coalition Imprisonment and detention rates in the United States |