The poorer your parents are, the more likely you are to be incarcerated

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Note: The share in prison or jail is an estimate of the total incarceration rate (in prison or in jail) based on the share of the 1980-1986 birth cohorts incarcerated in an adult correctional facility in the 2014 5-year American Community Survey.

Source: Source: The Brookings Institution Get the data