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4. Check out the high incarceration rate of Blacks in Vermont
Mon Apr 11, 2016, 01:13 PM
Apr 2016

They make around 1% of population but 10% of the incarcerated. Check it out!


Here's How Black People Actually Fare in Bernie Sanders' Home State


What does this mean? Black Vermonters make up just 1.2% of the state's general population, but 10.7% of its incarcerated population. Meaning that, proportionally, there are nearly 10 times more black people locked up in Vermont's jails and prisons on a given day than there are walking its streets.

Few in Vermont seem able to explain how this happened. The black incarceration rate grew faster than any other in the state between 1993 and 2007, before it leveled out and stayed relatively constant. But shortly before its peak, the Sentencing Project reported that Vermont had the second-highest black-to-white incarceration rate in America — topped only by Iowa, another state with a small black population.



http://mic.com/articles/124341/here-s-how-black-people-actually-fare-in-vermont-with-bernie-sanders-as-their-senator#.ykTd5i2Vd

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