As of December 2020, about 226,800 prisoners who were sentenced through state jurisdictions in the United States were of Hispanic origin. A further 345,500 sentenced state prisoners were Black in that year.
Number of sentenced prisoners under state jurisdiction in the United States in 2020, by ethnicity
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