WV State Prisons Data Analysis

1) 5 Names with most arrests-

            Adkins- 357

            Miller- 335

Smith- 632

            Johnson- 395

            Davis- 375

           

2) Average age of inmates

            -

3) Gender

            F- 10,093, 21.6%

            M- 36,672, 78.4%

     Race

            Asian- 57

            Black- 5,035

            Hisp- 768

            NAA- 26 

            ORI- 2

            OTH- 132

            WHI- 40,513

            BLANK- 234

4) 2010 U.S. Census- Population:

            Males- 49.2

            Females- 50.8

The gender difference in WV prison doesn’t correlate with the U.S. census of 2010.  The majority of men in WV prisons is significantly higher than that of the U.S census, where there are actually more females than males in the U.S. The percent of Hispanics and Blacks in prison in the U.S. census than it is in the state.

            White- 74.8

            Black- 13.6

            Hisp- 16.3

The Prison population does correlate with the statistics of the 2010 U.S. Census.  The most prevalent race in WV prisons is white, which also had the most population in the U.S. 

     2010 WV Census- Population: 1,852,993

            Males- 49.3%

            Females- 50.7%

The statistics did not correlate in this case.  There are far more males than females in WV State Prisons, but there is a majority of females in WV.

            White- 1,739,988- 93.9%

            Black- 63,124 – 3.4%

            Asian- 12,406 - .67%

            Other- 6,119 - .33%

            Hispanic- 22,268 – 1.2%

The white population has the majority in the U.S. census and in WV prisons.   The black population is second in both cases, however; the black population in WV Prisons is a higher rate than that of the black population throughout the state of WV.  Hispanics have about the same percent in all.  “Other” has exactly the same percent in each, showing a possible direct correlation.

5) WVSP BCL region- 1970

Charleston- 1797

So Kanawha-1289

Huntington-2054

Martinsburg-1109

6) From this data, I can conclude that in WV, if you are a white male, you are more likely to go to prison than any other race and gender.  White males are about 3 times more likely to be incarcerated than white females.

The national percentage of age, gender and race/ethnicity of the prison population does not match the percentage of the state of WV.

7) By looking at the data, it appears that the majority of those arrested by Huntington Police Department were white males, followed by white females. The majority of these individuals were under the age of 40, with most of them being in their 20s. Because of this, it is safe to conclude that young, white males are the majority being arrested in Huntington. This is also the age that most people attend a university.

Based on the arrests made in Morgantown, the numbers seem to reflect the same thing: white males were the majority followed by white females. The majority were under the age of 40 with most being in their 20s.

If those incarcerated reflects those at universities, you can conclude that the majority of Marshall University students and West Virginia University students are white males, with the second being white females.