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| SC’s female inmates now more likely to be white – but it’s unclear why |
| By heraldonline.com- Cynthia Roldán |
| Published: 09/26/2016 |
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RICHLAND COUNTY The number of white women in South Carolina prisons is surging, but state officials aren’t sure why. White female inmates in the past decade have come to outnumber their African-American counterparts – a trend that is not reflected as dramatically among the state’s male inmates. In 2004, black women made up 53 percent of South Carolina’s female inmates in prison, while white women made up 46 percent. Those numbers have steadily shifted since. Even in 2010, when the state had a prison overcrowding issue, of the 1,597 female inmates, 45 percent were black. By 2016, the makeup of the female prison population more closely reflects the state’s demographics. As of June 30, black women imprisoned at the Department of Corrections stood at 33 percent, and white women totaled 65 percent. South Carolina’s population, both male and female, is 28 percent black, according to 2015 U.S. Census Bureau estimates. Read More. |
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