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Figures Showing Ongoing Racial Disparities in Jailings

HeadlineJul 19, 2007

Meanwhile, the prisoner rights group the Sentencing Project has released a report showing continuing racial disparities in prison sentences. African Americans are jailed at five times the rate of white prisoners. Latinos are jailed at double the rate.

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