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. 2015 Sep 12;32(4):515–530. doi: 10.1007/s10940-015-9265-6

Table 5.

Incarceration disparities by state

Ranking B/W crude disparity B/W adjusted disparity H/W crude disparity H/W adjusted disparity
1 Minnesota Minnesota Massachusetts Massachusetts
2 New Jersey New Jersey Pennsylvania Pennsylvania
3 Massachusetts Massachusetts North Dakota North Dakota
4 Montana New York New York New York
5 Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Nebraska Colorado
6 New York Montana Colorado Nebraska
7 Nebraska Nebraska New Hampshire South Dakota
8 North Dakota Colorado South Dakota Minnesota
9 Colorado North Dakota Minnesota Utah
10 South Dakota Utah Rhode Island New Hampshire
11 Kansas Kansas New Jersey Rhode Island
12 Rhode Island Wyoming Utah Montana
13 Utah California Montana New Jersey
14 New Hampshire South Dakota Wyoming Wyoming
15 Wyoming Rhode Island Kansas California
16 California Ohio California Texas
17 Maine Maryland Oregon Kansas
18 Maryland Oregon Texas Oregon
19 Ohio Washington Ohio Idaho
20 Oregon Michigan Idaho Ohio
21 Washington Maine Nevada Nevada
22 Michigan New Hampshire Washington Washington
23 Indiana Indiana Indiana Oklahoma
24 North Carolina North Carolina North Carolina Indiana
25 Texas Texas Oklahoma North Carolina
26 Delaware South Carolina Georgia Alaska
27 Florida Oklahoma Alaska Georgia
28 South Carolina Delaware Delaware Missouri
29 Nevada Nevada South Carolina Delaware
30 Tennessee Tennessee Missouri Florida
31 Georgia Florida Florida South Carolina
32 Oklahoma Georgia Tennessee Tennessee
33 West Virginia Kentucky Mississippi Mississippi
34 Kentucky Missouri Kentucky Kentucky
35 Missouri West Virginia West Virginia West Virginia
36 Alabama Alabama
37 Idaho Idaho
38 Mississippi Mississippi
39 Alaska Alaska

Bold states have a higher non-Hispanic white incarceration rate than Hispanic rate