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Old 31st July 2007, 07:34 PM   #11 (permalink)
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Re: Racism Alive and Well in the U.S.

"In every state, the proportion of blacks in prison exceeds, sometimes by a considerable amount, their proportion in the general population (Figure 2). In Minnesota and Iowa, blacks constitute a share of the prison population that is twelve times greater than their share of the state population. In eleven states -- Kansas, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, Oregon, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Utah, Washington, Wisconsin, and Wyoming --the percentage of the prison population that is black is more than six times greater than the percentage of the state population that is black."

United States - Punishment and Prejudice: Racial Disparities in the War on Drugs
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