In their Friday roundup, Change.org’s Criminal Justice blog relates the results of a recent Pew study that found that 1 in 31 Americans are “under the control” of the corrections system – which means they are either in prison, on parole, or on probation. When we cut across different demographics, the numbers are more startling.

One in 89 women are under correctional control, while the number for men is 1 in 18. The numbers by race are: 1 in 45 whites, 1 in 27 hispanics, and, shockingly, 1 in 11 blacks. Florida ranks in the second quintile among states in the percentage of its citizens under correctional control.

The report can be found online here.

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