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| Conference to solve racial imbalance |
| By Wisconsin State Journal |
| Published: 10/17/2008 |
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WISCONSIN - The circle of chairs filled the long, narrow storefront at the Villager Mall on Madison's South Side. The 27 people — two-thirds of them black or Hispanic — are incarcerated at the Dane County Jail, out on work-release from prison or have served time. Participants in the Voices Beyond Bars group meeting Tuesday night, including half a dozen women, talked about successes and failures in their efforts to get jobs, places to live, tackle addictions and break free of bad friends and bad habits. The meeting also was a pretty good cross-section of who's behind bars in overwhelmingly white Dane County: It's disproportionately black. Fueled in large part by the war on drugs, the racial imbalance in the criminal justice system in Dane County is among the largest in the nation, according to a recent study by the Justice Policy Institute. Read more. If link has expired, check the website of the article's original news source. |
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