Bureau Of Justice Statistics Report

Bureau of Justice Statistics Report

Introduction:

In the year 2006 according to the Bureau of Justice Statistics report there were over 2,258,000 prisoners in prisons in the United States, according to this statistics this was a 2.9% increase in population from the previous year, regarding race there was 3,040 black males in prisons per 100,000 black males in the population in 2006, 1,260 Hispanic male prisoners per 100,000 Hispanic males and only 480 white males inmates per 100,000 white males in this year, this clearly shows that the black race has a larger population in prison than any other race in the united states. [1]

This paper compares the ethnic population in state and federal prisons, data was retrieved from the Bureau of Justice Statistics available at http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/prisons.htm , and the data provided is for the year 2006.

The black, Hispanic and whites race population:

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To analyse the different race population in prisons in the united states data was retrieved from the united states Bureau of Justice Statistics, this data enabled the analysis of race population in prisons in the year 2006, the race considered include black, Hispanic and whites:

Below is the entire population of prisoners in United States per 100, 000 residents:

all

percentage

White/c

7367

11%

Black/c

43,343

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64%

Hispanic

16,813

25%

total

67,523

100%

The above data can be summarised by the chart below:

From the above chart it is clear that the highest population in the prisons is the black, the other

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highest percentage is the Hispanic and the lowest is the whites. For this reason therefore we can conclude that the black race has more prisoners compared to the other races according to this statistics.

References:

The United States Bureau of Justice Statistics (2007) prison statistics 2006, retrieved on 8th January, available at

http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/prisons.htm

[1]

http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/prisons.htm