Beyond Bernie - Searching for Vermont's Political Identity - COMING MAY 9th - Vermont PBS

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5. Black Vermonters make up just 1.2% of its population, but 10.7% of its incarcerated.

There seem to be pronounced racial disparities in the criminal justice system in VT.

"Vermont has one of the worst track records when it comes to the criminal justice system. According to Vermonters for Criminal Justice Reform (VCJR) white people are equally as likely to be involved with drugs as black people are, yet, 'on average, black and brown people are incarcerated in Vermont state prisons at a rate 5.1 times higher the imprisonment of whites. Vermont has a higher rate of incarceration of black and brown men than any other state. 1 in 14 black and brown men in the state of Vermont are incarcerated.'”

https://middleburycampus.com/37955/local/vermonts-criminal-justice-system-a-series-unveiling-challenges-practices/

"Almost nowhere in the United States is the racial disparity in incarceration rates more pronounced than in Vermont, where a study by the Sentencing Project found that black people are jailed at a rate more than 10 times greater than those of whites."

http://digital.vpr.net/post/lawmakers-hope-sharpen-focus-racial-justice-vermont#stream/0