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Percentage of Black Prisoners Grows

Loaded on Oct. 15, 1991 published in Prison Legal News October, 1991, page 7
Filed under: Racial Discrimination, Resources, Crime/Demographics, Crime. Location: United States of America.
Percentage Of Black Prisoners Grows

In mid-July, 1991, the U.S. Department of Justice released a study titled Race of Prisoners Admitted to State and Federal Institutions, 1926-86. The results of the study are no big surprise. In 1926 78% of state and federal prisoners were white, 21% black, and 1% ...

 

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