But a significant decline in the number of black prisoners ... 169,400 in 2007 (499,800 white inmates vs. 330,400 Hispanic inmates). Overall, there were 1,439,808 sentenced prisoners in the U.S. at ...

The study compares white ... fall from 6-to-1 to 2-to-1. That decline was sharper than the decline among men, the study found. Over the 16 years that were studied, the number of black men in ...