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Title: The color of justice: Racial and ethnic disparity in state prisons
Contributors: Nellis, Ashley
Keywords: Discrimination in criminal justice administration—United States
Prisons—United States—Statistics
Race discrimination—United States
Mass incarceration—United States
Issue Date: Oct-2021
Publisher: The Sentencing Project
Place of Publication: Washington, D.C.
Description: This report details our observations of staggering disparities among Black and Latinx people imprisoned in the United States given their overall representation in the general population. The latest available data regarding people sentenced to state prison reveal that Black Americans are imprisoned at a rate that is roughly five times the rate of white Americans. This report documents the rates of incarceration for whites, African Americans, and Latinx individuals, providing racial and ethnic composition as well as rates of disparity for each state. The Sentencing Project has produced state-level estimates twice before and once again finds staggering disproportionalities.
URI: http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dsp0144558h443
Related resource: https://www.sentencingproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/The-Color-of-Justice-Racial-and-Ethnic-Disparity-in-State-Prisons.pdf
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