Today, Blacks comprise 13 percent of the national population, but 30 percent of people arrested, 41 percent of people in jail,18 and 49 percent of those in prison.19 Nine percent of all black adults are under some form of correctional supervision (in jail or prison, on probation or parole), compared to two percent of white adults. 20 One in three black men between the ages of 20 and 29 was either in jail or prison, or on parole or probation in 1995.21 One in ten black men in their twenties and early thirties is in prison or jail. 22 Thirteen percent of the black adult male population has lost the right to vote because of felony disenfranchisement laws.
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http://www.hrw.org/legacy/reports/2000/usa/Rcedrg00-01.htm2MalikaDontliketocheat Sotiredofshit Greene and Christopher Griffin-Davis1 CommentLikeCommentShare
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- Christopher Griffin-Davis I think we need to be aware of this.thanks for sharing!
