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NCIA Report Finds Prison Race Statistics Distorted
Loaded on March 15, 2002
published in Prison Legal News
March, 2002, page 26
A report released in May 2001, says that Hispanic/Latino prisoners are often classified in a variety of racial categories, which results in a distortion of prison statistics reporting the racial composition of American prison populations.
Filed under:
Racial Discrimination,
Crime/Demographics,
Statistics/Trends.
Location:
United States of America.
The research report, Masking The Divide: How Officially Reported Prison Statistics Distort the Racial and …
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