The USA incarcerates a higher percentage of its citizen than any other nation on earth. (We’re #1!) Needless to say, we’ve accomplished that feat largely on the backs of minorities, particularly black people, who are incarcerated at more than six times the rate of white people. But, the broader takeaway is that the racial mix of those we incarcerate (particularly women) is changing, but the fact of America’s mass incarceration is not. ‘The overall rate of incarceration in the United States remains at five times the rate that prevailed in 1970.'”

http://gawker.com/5987617/were-locking-up-fewer-black-people-and-more-white-people

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