Tag: imprisonment

• 12 February 2016
• by: NiaLena Caravasos
• in: Blog
• tag: africanamerican, changes, disproportionately, drug, enforcement, higher, imprisonment, law, men, offenders, past, prison, racial, rate, rates, university, white, women
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A blog recently posted via the Washington Post highlights notable data on racial and gender dynamics regarding recent changes in the rates of incarceration. Following decades of growth, the U.S. imprisonment rate has been declining for the past several years and hidden within this overall trend is the sizable and surprising racial disparity that African-Americans […]