(US Imprisonment Rates by Race, Age, and Gender, 2012) Male and female white prisoners of all age groups had lower imprisonment rates than male and female black and Hispanic prisoners. Overall, black males were 6 times and Hispanic males 2.5 times more likely to be imprisoned than white males in 2012. Hispanic males ages 18 to 19 were more than 3 times as likely as white males of the same age to be imprisoned, while all other age groups were at least twice as likely as white males to be serving a prison sentence. Black males had imprisonment rates at least 4 times those of white males in all age groups. The rates for black males age 39 or younger were more than 6 times greater than white males of the same age. Male inmates ages 18 to 19 had the largest imprisonment rate disparity between whites and blacks. Black males in this age group were almost 9.5 times more likely than white males to be in prison. Almost 1% of all male residents in the United States were imprisoned at yearend 2012. A total of 2.8% of black, 0.5% of white, and 1.2% of Hispanic males were in state or federal prison on December 31, 2012. Among black males, this represents a decline from the rate in 2011 (3%). Between 4% and 7% of black males ages 20 to 49 were prison inmates. Black males ages 30 to 34 had the highest incarceration rate (6,932 prisoners per 100,000 black male U.S. residents ages 30 to 34). This age group also had the highest imprisonment rates among white and Hispanic males in 2012. Among female prisoners in 2012, black females ages 18 to 19 were 3 times more likely to be imprisoned than white females. Hispanic females in this age group had imprisonment rates nearly twice those of white females. White and Hispanic females approached parity imprisonment rates among prisoners ages 35 to 44. Hispanic females age 65 or older were more than twice as likely as white females of this age to be serving time in prison, the age group of greatest disparity. Black and white female imprisonment rates were closest among prisoners ages 25 to 39, when black females were less than twice as likely as white females to be imprisoned. - See more at: drugwarfacts.org/cms/Race_and_Prison#sthash.U4z5dzFY.dpuf
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