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Whites overcounted in prison. (Racefile).(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
Nearly all the growth in the nation's prison population over the past 12 years comes from black and Latino communities, according to a recent study from the National Center on Institutions and Alternatives (NCIA). The study is the first to simultaneously separate prisoners along the lines of race and ethnicity.
The study shows that between 1985 and 1997, when the prison population almost tripled, 70 percent of new inmates were African American, Latino, or other nonwhite minorities. This fact had gone unnoticed because previous official prison population statistics categorized Latinos as white prisoners.
The report finds that whites in prison are considerably overcounted in many states. In 1997, New Mexico reported its prison population as 83 percent white, when the actual percentage was 29 percent. In the same year, Arizona reported that 80 percent of its inmates were white when the figure was actually only 30 percent. In New York, whose prison population doubled between 1985 and 1997--with people of color accounting for over 90 percent of the growth--only 18 ...
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Source: HighBeam Research, Whites overcounted in prison. (Racefile).(Brief Article)(Statistical...