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Re:At $75K, housing a prisoner in California now costs more ... by geggam on Friday March 22, 2019 @05:18AM (#19460750)
Overlay economic data on the race and the picture will change the story from racism to what I like to call "Being Poor is illegal in the US"
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Re:At $75K, housing a prisoner in California now costs more ... by isolli on Friday March 22, 2019 @05:26AM (#19460783)
Not quite: have a look at these charts [0]. I believe that such a massive disparity in arrest rates between blacks and whites cannot be explained just by economic factors.

[0] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2013/06/04/the-b...

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Re:At $75K, housing a prisoner in California now costs more ... by freyir on Friday March 22, 2019 @06:07AM (#19460998)
Marijuana arrests account for 0.7% of the prison population.

It would be interesting to see the figures for other types of arrest.

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Re:At $75K, housing a prisoner in California now costs more ... by geggam on Friday March 22, 2019 @06:08AM (#19461005)
Here is a study you might find interesting to add to yours

https://www.prisonpolicy.org/reports/income.html

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