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Originally Posted by Babaganoosh
Now post incarceration stats by race.
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OK
From 2008...
33.44% White American (non-Hispanic)
20.29% Hispanic
40.21% African American (non-Hispanic)
6.06% Other (American Indian, Alaska Native, Asian American, Native Hawaiian, Pacific Islander American, and Multiracial American).
From Wikipedia...
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Although blacks account for only 12 percent of the U.S. population, 44 percent of all prisoners in the United States are black. Census data for 2000, which included a count of the number and race of all individuals incarcerated in the United States, revealed a dramatic racial disproportion of the incarcerated population in each state: the proportion of blacks in prison populations exceeded the proportion among state residents in every single state. In twenty states, the percent of blacks incarcerated was at least five times greater than their share of resident population.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incarce...ed_States#Race