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Beaker Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-14-03 06:32 PM
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35. Not True.
http://www.bop.gov/fact0598.html#Race

INMATES BY RACE

White: 96,785 (56.4%)

Black: 69,359 (40.4%)

Asian: 2,721 (1.6%)

Native
American: 2,697 (1.6%)


However-
when you look at it in numbers of percentages per race, the story is a lot different-

http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/prisons.htm

At yearend 2002 there were 3,437 sentenced black male prisoners per 100,000 black males in the United States, compared to 1,176 sentenced Hispanic male inmates per 100,000 Hispanic males and 450 white male inmates per 100,000 white males.
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