Tag: incarceration rate

The Plight of Young, Black Men Is Worse Than You Think

Oct 1, 2012

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by

mwkruse

in Demography, Economics, Public Policy, Race, Sociology

BusinessWeek: The Plight of Young, Black Men Is Worse Than You Think The U.S. has the highest incarceration rate of any wealthy nation, with about 2.3 million people behind bars at any given moment. (That’s 730 out of 100,000, vs. just 154 for England and Wales.) There are more people in U.S. prisons than are…