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John,
The Sentencing Project released a new report, “ One in Five: Ending Racial Inequity in Incarceration [[link removed]] ,” that presents an overview of trends in incarceration and community supervision. The report identifies the progress made in the 21st century in reducing the U.S. prison population and its racial and ethnic disparities, while sounding the alarm about the future of reforms. One in five Black men born in 2001 is likely to experience imprisonment within their lifetime, a decline from one in three for those born in 1981. But rather than accelerate the pace of reforms, pushback from policymakers threatens further advancement.
According to the report, the imprisonment rate of Black men in 2021 declined substantially, falling by almost half (48%) since 2000, yet Black men were still imprisoned at 5.5 times the rate of white men. The imprisonment rate of Black women declined even more, by 70% since 2000, but Black women remained imprisoned at 1.6 times the rate of white women.
The report also found that:
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The
total
prison
population
has
declined
by
25%
after
reaching
its
peak
level
in
2009.
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While
all
major
racial
and
ethnic
groups
experienced
decarceration,
the
Black
prison
population
has
downsized
the
most.
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American
Indian
and
Latinx
people
were
imprisoned
at
4.2
times
and
2.4
times
the
rate
of
whites
in
2021,
respectively.
The momentum for continued progress is precarious. We’ve seen a backlash to the progress we’ve made on criminal justice reform. In fact, preliminary data [[link removed]] from the Department of Justice shows that the prison population increased for the first time in almost a decade between 2021 and 2022.
In an effort to protect and expand the progress, The Sentencing Project is producing the “One in Five” series of four reports to examine both the narrowing and persistence of racial injustice in the criminal legal system, as well as to highlight promising reforms.
Stay tuned for the rest of the series and click here to read the first installment [[link removed]] .
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