I was looking through some data from the Brookings Institute and ran across the graph below on the percent of Americans aged 25 to 64 that are "institutionalized" by education level.
Institutionalized is a nice way of saying in jail. To be fair, it also includes folks in nursing homes. But very few people between the age of 25 and 64 are in nursng homes.
The chart's pretty clear, and Brookings does a nice job of summarizing it:
"... over the past 4 decades share of Americans without a high school diploma that has been institutionalized has nearly tripled, while the rate for college graduates has remained unchanged. The increasing rates of institutionalization, and in particular incarceration, among the less-educated highlight the social costs of higher crime and the broader costs of men and women not contributing to the well-being of their communities."
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