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| Census Data on Blacks in Prison |
| By Associated Press |
| Published: 07/27/2001 |
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Black Americans comprise a greater share of prison inmates than they do in the overall population of at least 29 states, new census data show. It is a long-held phenomenon that analysts trace in part to raw arrest figures. Separate data from the FBI show that blacks are arrested at rates far higher than their national population percentage. Civil rights advocates and critics of the criminal justice system also point to what they call historic racial inequities in how police and prosecutors fight crime, including racial profiling. The percentage of African Americans in correctional institutions was higher than the percentage of blacks in the total population for the 29 states and the District of Columbia for which such census data is available. In data released recently for South Carolina, 68 percent of men between the ages of 18 and 64 in correctional institutions were African American. Blacks made up 27 percent of the state's total population in the same age group. In West Virginia, blacks made up 44 percent of the female inmates ages 18 to 64. Blacks were 3 percent of the total female population in the same age range. The reverse was true for non-Hispanic whites in nearly all states. For example, non-Hispanic white men made up 29 percent of South Carolina inmates between 18 and 64. Non-Hispanic whites were 68 percent of all men between 18 and 64 in the state. Data compiled by the FBI from more than 8,500 police agencies show that blacks were the subject of 29 percent of arrests in 1999. Whites were the subject of 69 percent of arrests in 1999, according to the FBI; the 2000 census showed whites made up about 75 percent of the total population. |
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