Imprisonment Rate of Black Men Down By Nearly 50% Since 2000, But Pushback Threatens Continued Progress

By Rayna Reid Rayford ·Updated November 30, 2023

Earlier this month, The Sentencing Project released their latest report, “One in Five: Ending Racial Inequity in Incarceration.” This report is the first in what will be a series of four, “examining racial inequities in America’s criminal legal system.”

The report discussed how for Black men, the likelihood of being imprisoned has decreased. In 1981, there was a one in three likelihood for

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