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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2023 Oct 1.
Published in final edited form as: Health Aff (Millwood). 2022 Oct;41(10):1460–1469. doi: 10.1377/hlthaff.2022.00495

EXHIBIT 4.

Previous residence in other institutions before current incarceration among incarcerated people in the US, by disability, race, ethnicity, and sex, 2016

Any institution
Punitive institution
Therapeutic institution
Disabled Nondisabled Disabled Nondisabled Disabled Nondisabled
WOMEN
Black 82.45% 65.69%**** 74.69% 62.30%** 48.23% 18.97%****
Hispanic 84.28 69.49**** 73.28 65.93* 52.25 23.83****
White 85.65 74.26**** 71.52 62.92*** 64.92 40.91****
Other race 85.57 72.59 81.09 70.78 58.00 32.46*
Multiracial 88.96 78.30* 74.93 69.54 62.38 27.10****
MEN
Black 89.35% 80.88%**** 86.14% 79.50%**** 38.99% 16.97%****
Hispanic 85.10 72.62**** 80.88 71.17**** 37.90 12.07****
White 85.15 75.44**** 77.73 70.01**** 52.76 31.10****
Other race 88.90 70.70*** 86.73 69.50*** 47.61 22.91***
Multiracial 88.42 82.19*** 81.84 81.45 50.51 22.17****

source Authors analysis of data from the Bureau of Justice Statistics, Survey of Prison Inmates (SPI), 2016. notes N = 22,660. Estimates reflect the percent of people who had previously resided in another institution before their current incarceration, stratified by disability, race, ethnicity, and sex. We consider someone to have previously resided in “any institution” if they reported previous residence in any punitive or therapeutic institution; these institutions are listed in the notes to exhibit 3. Definitions of disabled and nondisabled people are in the notes to exhibit 1. The race and ethnicity variable is constructed by the SPI using respondents self-identified race and Hispanic ethnicity. The 5 categories are described in the notes to exhibit 2.

*

p < 0.10

**

p < 0.05

***

p < 0.01

****

p < 0.001