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Private Prisons House More Latinos Than Do Public Ones, Study Finds

In March, Rina Palta reported for Code Switch on a study that found private prisons were disproportionately filled with inmates of color. A broader recent study of federal data from 2005 has revealed something similar: The proportion of white inmates was significantly smaller in private prisons than in public ones, and the proportion of Latino inmates was larger. [read the full story here]

NPR, Sunday, August 10, 2014
Tags: Prison Conditions & Corruption, Federal
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