Finally! Data that is interesting, beautiful, and easy to understand without a ton of explanation.

google sheets do the job for me for most basic cases :)

Computer becomes smart and decides Mans bad, but murder is worse, computer then decides to just kill all computers to curb man. Wake up one day back in the dark ages.

Interesting graph. I can’t decide if it’s effectively giving the information in a concise way or not yet, but I still really like the effort. And it’s different. Very cool!

Edit: I looked at this some more, and it does do a great job of telling the story in a clear and concise way.

Very interesting info, didn't even think of that

If you push until it falls over will it ever fall over?

Thought for sure this was the longest pubes in the world with a fancy comb-over.

Vermonts numbers are heavily skewed by a high proportion of prison residents who are not Vermont residents. A large portion violent crime in the state is committed by people from surrounding states trafficking drugs. For instance Burlington had 5 murders last year, all 5 were committed by POC 3 against POC, and of the 5 committing the crime only 2 were a Vermont resident2. The others were from cities. A 4th one was a resident but only because they were on probation for a drug crime they committed in VT but came from Brooklyn.

Yup, contextually it’s a very misleading portion of the infographic that perpetuates the myth that prisons are full of low level drug offenders.

Popular hair do in the 60s

That is partly the reason. Additionally, mortgage rates have increased a lot over the last year, which has also negatively impacted demand. That coupled with high prices is why states like Idaho have seen drops from the post-pandemic highs.

The US prison system is a human rights abuse at the very least, and I would argue could meaningfully constitute a crime against humanity.

Are the biggest turn around due to the decline of work from home?

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Assuming I kind of understand what the heck this is saying, Can someone tell us what the area is “under the curve” on the right side is? I want three categories, blue/green, yellow, orange/red.

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That's without politicians being locked up

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Presenting the federal prison data with the rest of the information on this graphic is misleading, and perpetuates the myth that prisons in the US are full of low level drug offenders.

The vast majority of prisoners in the US are incarcerated through state prison systems, which are omitted in your breakdown of federal prison inmates. Crimes like murder, rape, robbery, etc. are overwhelmingly handled through state justice systems. That’s why those violent offenses barely appear in your federal prisoner bar chart. About half of the prisoners in the US are incarcerated for violent offenses (murder, rape, etc), and about 14% are there for drug offenses. Also, at the federal level, the drug offenders are generally not people who were busted with a dime bag of cannabis, but rather guilty of more serious crimes like drug trafficking.

Ahhh I stand corrected! I've never been to Winooski, no wonder I've never seen another POC.

Source: Freddie Mac Tool: R/RStudio

How does this data account for federal prisons, or persons imprisoned in other states in facility sharing agreements?

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Winooski has the only significant black population in the state. Is second whitest behind Maine, I think the state is like 94% white. Even UVM with a massive diversity push can only get to 15% non-white, and it’s been stagnant the past few years. Racism dominates the state more because of being around POC being so different for many than having a more-expected right-wing racism mindset.

Source: went to UVM from 2018-2022

OP,

Just a couple questions just to make sure I am understanding a few of these maps correct...

Are they saying that despite states with HIGH incarceration rates (Ex: LA, AR, MS) there are more whites being incarcerated in those states? If so that is interesting as the ratio is per 100,000 population of same race living there. So it takes into account disproportional number of sample sizes in the populations.

Also, any idea on the breakdown on the drug offenses that led the federal prison sentences? Are they distribution? Possession? Both? Are they marijuana? Are they more "hardcore" drugs, i.e. cocaine, heroin, fentanyl, ectacy, speed, etc...?

Thanks in advance.