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MrEZW t1_jec2se1 wrote

Reply to comment by DemonicDevice in [OC] The United States Prison Crisis by cbarrettg

Probably because it's relative to the population of the state & the black population is higher in the south compared to other places.

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ManWearingSandals t1_jed4pq5 wrote

The OP is calculating a ratio of the two rates. The rates already normalize for population sizes. 1.2% of black population vs. 0.1% of the white population gives a ratio of 12x. One thing to note: this data does not seem to include federal incarceration statistics for the state comparison maps.

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