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