This is the first story in the Overrepresented, Undercounted series. While Indigenous people represent around 1% of the state’s population, they represent 9.4% of the adult prison population in Minnesota, and about the same rate across all jails in the state, according to information from the Minnesota Department of Corrections and the nonprofit Institute for Justice. KAXE is exploring the underlying issues of the statistics through survey outreach, extensive research and in-person interviews.