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Historic reductions in U.S. prison populations during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic disproportionately benefitted white people, and the fraction of incarcerated Black and Latino people ...
Bella Vista is 62% white, 22% Hispanic, 7% two or more races, 4% Asian and 2% Black students, according to CapRadio. Jayha Buhs-Jackson, president of the school’s Black Student Union, said ...
The jail's all-orange jumpsuits increasingly are viewed as "cool," Saginaw County Sheriff William Federspiel says, prompting him to begin purchasing jumpsuits with horizontal black-and-white ...
If orange is the new black, as the popular TV show title says, then black-and-white stripes are the new orange at the Saginaw County Jail. The jail's all-orange jumpsuits increasingly are viewed ...
White Chick Behind Bars Netflix’s Orange is the New Black gets an ‘A’ on queer issues, a ‘C’ on race and an ‘F’ on class. Yasmin Nair July 18, 2013 ...
A Utah charter school invited its students to send their classmates to “lunch jail” as part of a fundraising event — and then promoted the campaign with an image of a Black child in an ...
In 2014, there were 21,590 prisoners in New Jersey -- 13,170 of whom were black, 4,750 of whom were white and 3,454 of whom were Hispanic -- according to the Sentencing Project's data.
A total of 1,661 out of every 100,000 Black residents are behind prison bars in the Sunflower State — or 1 in 60. The incarceration rate for white Kansans wasn’t even close — 265 per 100,000 ...