BTW, here's a clip from an article (Daily Mail, FWIW) posted earlier today and citing 2005 US prisoner stats:
The numbers are from the annual report from the Justice Department's Bureau of Justice Statistics. The report breaks down inmate populations for state and federal prisons and local jails.
Racial disparities among prisoners persist. In the 25-29 age group, 8.1 per cent of black men - about one in 13 - are incarcerated, compared with 2.6 per cent of Hispanic men and 1.1 per cent of white men. And it's not much different among women. By the end of 2005, black women were more than twice as likely as Hispanics and over three times as likely as white women to be in prison.
Let me say that back in 02 when I began pointing out BJS stats, I included blacks. What I found was that those that were trying to impugn the info I was presenting on hispanics, tried to label me as racist because the info included blacks.
Even tho it is important to know how blacks fit into the picture, I no longer include that.