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.
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.