State Prison Dollars Violent Crime per Capita (x) Rate...

Incarceration Rates (Example 7) The table gives the prison population and total population for a sample of states in 2014-15. (Source: The 2017 World Almanac and Book of Facts) $$ \begin{array}{|l|c|c|} \hline \text { State } & \text { Prison Population } & \text { Total Population } \\ \hline \text { California } & 136,088 & 39,144,818 \\ \hline \text { New York } & 52,518 & 19,795,791 \\ \hline \text { Illinois } & 48,278 & 12,859,995 \\ \hline \text { Louisiana } & 38,030 & 4,670,724 \\ \hline \text { Mississippi } & 18,793 & 2,992,333 \\ \hline \end{array} $$ Find the number of people in prison per thousand residents in each state and rank each state from the highest rate (rank 1$)$ to the lowest rank (rank 6). Compare these rankings of rates with the ranks of total numbers of people in prison. Of the states in this table, which state has the highest prison population? Which state has the highest rate of imprisonment? Explain why these two answers are different.

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State Prison Dollars Violent Crime per Capita (x) Rate (y) Iowa 150 6.57 Idaho 51 2.23 Maine 199 4.20 Nebraska 55 2.81 Tennessee 179 6.91 N=5

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State Prison Dollars Violent Crime per Capita (x) Rate (y) Iowa 150 6.57 Idaho 51 2.23 Maine 199 4.20 Nebraska 55 2.81 Tennessee 179 6.91 N=5

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