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Thank you,
Peter Wagner, Executive Director Donate
The Racial Geography of Mass Incarceration
by Peter Wagner and Daniel Kopf
July, 2015
- Report
- Press release
- Appendices:
- Appendix A: Counties: Total, incarcerated and non-incarcerated populations by race/ethnicity and ratios of overrepresentation
- Appendix B: Percentiles of County Ratios by State for Blacks
- Appendix C: Percentiles of County Ratios by State for Latinos
- Appendix D: Portion of each state's incarcerated population that is incarcerated in disproportionately White counties
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