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SOURCE: THE NAACP

  • African Americans now constitute nearly 1 million of the total 2.3 million incarcerated population.
  • African Americans are incarcerated at nearly six times the rate of whites.
  • Together, African American and Hispanics comprised 58% of all prisoners in 2008, even though African Americans and Hispanics make up only one quarter of the US population.
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