Number of sentenced prisoners under state jurisdiction U.S. 2020, by ethnicity

Published by
Veera Korhonen,
Jul 5, 2024
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

CharacteristicNumber of prisoners
Black 345,500
White 327,300
Hispanic 226,800
American Indian/Alaska Native 15,900
Asian 12,500
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December 2022

Region

United States

Survey time period

as of December 31, 2020

Supplementary notes

*Estimation.
U.S. total includes federal prisoners not distributed by state and prison system.
For years ending December 31.

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