Current Events > Incarceration rates for white Americans on the rise, falls for black Americans.

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https://www.axios.com/african-american-incarceration-rates-falling-01382790-8fe4-43c2-a6be-035e267e98ab.html

There's still significant racial disparity in U.S. jails and prisons but since 2005, the jail incarceration rate for African-Americans has declined by 20% nationally and 30% in urban areas, while the incarceration rate for whites has slowly increased, according to a new study of federal data by Vera Institute of Justice and the MacArthur Foundation's Safety and Justice Challenge.

Pretty interesting stuff going on here.
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Oh snap!
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