NURSING EXAM QUESTIONS
SOCIOLOGY
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About 4%
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Almost 80%
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About 25%
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Detailed explanation-1: -In Alabama, Black people constituted 28% of state residents, but 43% of people in jail and 54% of people in prison.
Detailed explanation-2: -The report describes demographic and offense characteristics of state and federal prisoners. It also provides data on prisoners held under military jurisdiction. The U.S. prison population was 1, 204, 300 at yearend 2021, a 1% decrease from 2020 (1, 221, 200) and a 25% decrease from 2011 (1, 599, 000).
Detailed explanation-3: -That means the US held 21.0% of the world’s prisoners in 2015, even though the US represented only around 4.4 percent of the world’s population in 2015. By the end of 2020, the U.S. prison and jail population had decreased to 1, 675, 400, with an incarceration rate of 505 per 100, 000 people.