72,000 91,913,080 97,620,652 103,173,604 108,715,643

Race/Hispanic origin
White* 120,878,496 132,166,671 140,455,378 145,134,029 149,184,485 153,174,207
Male 57,704,209 63,114,508 67,150,845 69,718,665 71,989,995 74,217,435
Female 63,173,779 69,055,203 73,304,533 75,415,364 77,194,490 78,956,773

Black* 14,406,407 16,544,671 18,682,074 20,687,638 22,627,733 24,466,606
Male 6,593,640 7,543,858 8,517,413 9,465,170 10,401,742 11,287,707
Female 7,813,782 8,999,844 10,164,661 11,222,468 12,225,991 13,178,900

Hispanic 7,998,062 8,854,010 11,956,854 15,677,988 19,181,910 22,949,502
Male 3,923,600 4,353,052 6,003,930 8,022,134 9,674,049 11,452,968
Female 4,074,628 4,500,532 5,952,924 7,655,854 9,507,861 11,496,534

Note: Because of estimation and other rounding procedures, some detail
may not add to totals and may not match precisely totals in other tables.

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Female rates, though significantly lower, reveal similar racial and
ethnic disparities. Adult black females were nearly 2 1/2 times more
likely than adult Hispanic females and 5 1/2 times more likely than
adult white females to have ever served time in State or Federal prison.

Among adult residents in 2001, an estimated 1.7% of black females, 0.7%
of Hispanic females and 0.3% of white females had ever been
incarcerated in a prison.

Among both men and women who had ever been confined in prison in 2001,
blacks outnumbered whites in each age category under age 45; whites
outnumbered blacks in nearly every age category 45 or older (table 6).
The percentage of blacks declined steadily among each older age group
(dropping from 44% among those ages 18 to 24 to 29% among persons 65 or
older). The percentage of Hispanics also declined among older age
groups (dropping from 24% among those ages 18 to 24 to 8% among those
age 65 or older). In contrast, at yearend 2001 the percentage white
among all adults ever incarcerated increased from 27% of those ages 18
to 24 to 52% among persons age 65 or older.

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+Table 6. Number ever incarcerated in a State or Federal prison, by
gender, race