prison: Dataset on Incarcerated Populations (2023)

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Dataset on Incarcerated Populations (2023)

Description

Data on the racial composition of prison populations in the US, at the state-month level. The variables are as follows:

Usage

data(prison)

Format

A (tibble) data frame with 9,585 rows and 9 variables.

Details

• date. Date.

• state. State. Count of total incarcerated population.

• incarcerated_total. Count of total incarcerated population.

• incarcerated_white. Count of white incarcerated population.

• incarcerated_black. Count of Black incarcerated population.

• incarcerated_hispanic. Count of Hispanic incarcerated population.

• incarcerated_amerind. Count of Amerindian incarcerated population.

• incarcerated_asian. Count of Asian incarcerated population.

• incarcerated_nonwhite. Count of nonwhite incarcerated population.

Source

Klein, B., Ogbunugafor, C.B., Schafer, B.J. et al. COVID-19 amplified racial disparities in the US criminal legal system. Nature 617, 344–350 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-05980-2

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