Queer, Gifted & Black: The Top 10 Most Startling Facts About People of Color and Criminal Justice in the United States A Look at the Racial…

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1. While people of color make up about 30 percent of the United States’ population, they account for 60 percent of those imprisoned. The prison population grew by 700 percent from 1970 to 2005, a rate that is outpacing crime and population rates. The incarceration rates disproportionately…

Queer, Gifted & Black: The Top 10 Most Startling Facts About People of Color and Criminal Justice in the United States A Look at the Racial…