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Prison Pipeline statistics
Just heard on Ellen:
👮🏽?♀️America has the highest rate of incarceration in the world—6 million people are on probation or parole; 132 million people in the country have family members in jail or prison.
👮🏽?♀️In the 70s 300,000 people were in jail; now 6 times that—or 2 million are jailed.
👮🏽?♀️One in three black boys will end up in jail.
👮🏽?♀️Black defendants are 11 times more likely to get the death penalty.
👮🏽?♀️Some are serving life sentences for benign offenses such as writing a bad check for $50 or possessing marijuana.
