Unless the BJS has updated their statistics, that stat could probably be bullshit. The stat was originally based on this from back in 2001 (https://bjs.ojp.gov/content/pub/pdf/p01.pdf). The 2013 report (https://bjs.ojp.gov/content/pub/pdf/p13.pdf) shows a 20% decrease and unless it’s gone back up in the recent years, the downward trend may have continued. If you have the more recent report post it in a reply and I’ll give it a check.
A Pew study from January 2018 found it's 33%: "In 2010, the percentage of all Americans with a felony record was 8.11 percent (including three percent who have served time in prison), but for black males the rate was 33 percent". I couldn't find a firm number in those BJS documents.
Unless the BJS has updated their statistics, that stat could probably be bullshit. The stat was originally based on this from back in 2001 (https://bjs.ojp.gov/content/pub/pdf/p01.pdf). The 2013 report (https://bjs.ojp.gov/content/pub/pdf/p13.pdf) shows a 20% decrease and unless it’s gone back up in the recent years, the downward trend may have continued. If you have the more recent report post it in a reply and I’ll give it a check.
A Pew study from January 2018 found it's 33%: "In 2010, the percentage of all Americans with a felony record was 8.11 percent (including three percent who have served time in prison), but for black males the rate was 33 percent". I couldn't find a firm number in those BJS documents.
https://www.prisonlegalnews.org/news/2018/jun/8/percentage-americans-felony-convictions-increases-especially-blacks/
Here’s the BJS for 2018, days something like 1.05k per 100k. https://bjs.ojp.gov/content/pub/pdf/p18.pdf
So yeah definitely higher than every other group, but in at least pre pandemic there was something like a 28% decrease over thirty years.
I wonder if it went back up during the pandemic.