New data clearly illustrate the poverty-to-prison pipeline
“In the US, boys born into poor households often end up in prison as adults. Boys born into rich ones almost never do. This is the eye-opening finding of a recently released analysis by the Brookings Institution. The report finds that boys born into households in the bottom 10% of earners are 20 times more likely to be in prison on a given day in their early 30s than children born into the top 10%. The research is based on a first-of-its-kind dataset linking people incarcerated from 2009 to 2013 to data on their parents’ earnings reported to the Internal Revenue Service.”