Abstract
Incarceration rates among the African American population have dramatically increased over the past few decades. To add, African Americans men have a one in three likelihood of some form of imprisonment while white men have one in seventeen chance of some form of incarceration. These numbers are quite alarming and present the injustices African Americans experience within the criminal justice system. The research to be conducted with address social inequalities, such as poverty, unemployment and educational attainment (high school graduate or higher) African Americans endure and could possibly associate to high incarceration rates. The secondary data was retrieved from the American Community Survey and the Bureau of Justice Statistics. The study was a linear regression test that compared the total state social inequalities to the number of individuals incarcerated per 100,000 in each state. When compared, it was found to be significant with a positive relationship. Than, the social inequalities of African Americans were compared to the total state incarceration rates per 100,000 African Americans. When these variables were compared it was found that they were not significant.