Abstract
The study used data from the 2016 end of fiscal year report on prison inmates who were in prison on the last day of that fiscal year. Only inmates committed to prison by a Iowa county court were included. The race/ethnicities included White, Hispanic, Black, Asian and Native American in descending order of residential population. Both genders were taken into account.
One of the most conspicuous outcomes of this this study is the very strong dependence on gender and in particular the near total absence of minority female prison commitments by rural counties. The rural counties committed no Hispanic females, one each for Black and Asian females and two Native American females. Rural county commitments of minority males were also small.
The following counties Des Moines, Woodbury, Johnson, Linn, Scott, Black Hawk and Polk Counties accounted for 80% of the Black male prison commitments.
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