Bar charts showing that in kentucky prisons and jails, incarceration rates are highest for black residents. In other words, african americans in kentucky are 3.2 times more likely to be in prison than whites Causes and implications of disproportionate representation in criminal justice system. Incarceration trends in kentucky since 1970 Examine jail and prison populations, incarceration rates, and racial disparities. By 1900, there were about 139 african american shoemakers in kentucky's prisons
A decade later there were over 700 Close to half of all the prisoners making shoes in kentucky were african american males. While whites comprise 88.3% of the state’s population and african americans make up 7.5%, about 31% of the total kentucky prison population is african american. States exhibit astounding rates of racial and ethnic disparity in their rates of incarceration African americans are incarcerated in state prisons at nearly five times the rate of whites. Ready to learn more about kentucky inmates
Education and rehabilitation programs can reduce reoffending by 43% First, we now have a downloadable spreadsheet of the most recently available incarceration data for people in state prisons and in local jails, by race and ethnicity and by sex, for all 50 states and d.c. The notable kentucky african americans (nkaa) was originally a website with a series of individual web pages listing approximately 200 biographical entries on african americans in and from the state of kentucky. African americans make up less than 8 percent of the state’s population but comprise 21 percent of the prison population The incarceration rate for black kentuckians is more than triple the rate for whites.
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