At yearend 2001 over 5.6 million U.S. adults had ever served time in State or Federal prison * Of adults in 2001 who had ever served time in prison, nearly as many were black (2,166,000) as were white (2,203,000). An estimated 997,000 were Hispanic. * The rate of ever having gone to prison among adult black males(16.6%) was over twice as high as among adult Hispanic males (7.7%) and over 6 times as high as among adult white males (2.6%). * U.S. residents ages 35 to 39 in 2001 were more likely to