The Bureau of Justice Statistics has issued its latest report on incarceration. [PDF] Cross-burning racist that I am, I naturally went first to Table 8: ”Number in prison/local jail per 100,000 adult U.S. residents by race or Hispanic origin.” That gives you the proportion of each race currently locked up.

The proportions are: White, 410 per 100,000. Black, 1,850 per 100,000. Hispanic, 810 per 100,000. Other, 740 per 100,000.

So blacks are getting locked up at four and a half times the rate of whites, Hispanics at twice the rate. We’re a long way yet from incarceration equity. Don’t worry, though; progressive legislators and DAs are working on it.