After swelling for decades, the number of Americans in prison is finally, gradually beginning to shrink. For the first time since 1978, populations in both state and federal prisons are getting smaller, the result of an overall decline in crime, an easing of the War on Drugs and reform efforts on the part of many states.
But what about the racial disparity in incarceration? Is it easing, too?
[For more of this story, written by Eli Hager, go to http://jjie.org/our-prisons-in...ck-and-white/165956/]
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