Jail incarceration rate due to COVID-19 by ethnicity U.S. 2019-2020
Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, local jail incarceration rates fell across the board in the United States. In June 2019, the local jail incarceration rate for Black inmates was 600 per 100,000 residents. This decreased the following year, where the jail incarceration rate was at 465 per 100,000 residents.