Black and Hispanic folks make up 32 percent of the U.S. population, but represent 56 percent of this country’s incarcerated population]. It’s mostly men who are currently locked up, but there is a growing trend with more women being incarcerated [notes this increase in women being incarcerated since the 1970s].
Ideally, we would have a one-stop place where when folks get out, they go to one building.
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