Four Reasons for a Surprising Change in Racial Incarceration Trendlines

From Race Inquiry Digest
January 10, 2018

It’s long been a given that racial disparities plague the nation’s criminal justice system. That’s still true — black people are incarcerated at a rate five times higher than that of white people — but the disparities are decreasing, and there are a number of interesting reasons behind the trend.

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