Less than two thirds of California’s adult male population is nonwhite or Latino (60%), but these groups make up three of every four men in prison: Latinos are 42%, African Americans are 29%, and other races are 6%.
Among adult men in 2013, African Americans were incarcerated at a rate of 4,367 per 100,000, compared to 922 for Latinos, 488 for non-Latino whites, and 34 for Asians."
Very poorly written and the numbers don't jive
If you read this bulleted point from your reference and understand what type of math they are using, could you clue me in?
If 60% of the prison population of 100,000 are nonwhite or latino that means blacks and latinos are 60,000 of the 100,000.
43,670 (blacks) + 9,220 (Latinos) + 4,880 (non-Latino Whites) + 340 (asians) = 58110 ... close to the 60% given, but I had to add a factor of 10 to each race statistic to get there. The remainder 100,000 - 58110 = 41890 which is ostensibly the # of white males incarcerated.