This map provides the rates at which drug offenders were sent to prison in 2003, calculated from prison admissions data for the 34 states which participated in 2003 in the National Corrections Reporting Program. The rates are calculated per 100,000 state residents of the specified race and gender. For more information on the methodology we used, see Chapter IX, Targeting Blacks.

Rolling over a state will give you the black/white ratio for drug offenders admitted to prison in that state and the ranking of the state among the 34 for which we have data from highest to lowest ratio, e.g. from worst to least racial disparity. Clicking on a state will bring up a breakdown of rates at which drug offenders were sent to prison by race and gender in that state .

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