If African Americans and Hispanics were incarcerated at the same rates as whites, prison and jail populations would decline by almost 40%.

In New York, black people constituted 15% of state residents, but 43% of people in jail and 48% of people in prison.

In 2017, the imprisonment rate for African American women was nearly twice the rate of imprisonment for white women.

The median annual income before incarceration for black women who are in jail and unable to post bail is just over $9,000; the median felony bail is $10,000.

Each year the U.S. books more people into local jail than the populations of New York City and Los Angeles combined.