The decline in the US imprisonment rate is producing a “a sizable and surprising racial disparity”: African-Americans are benefitting from the national de-incarceration trend but whites are serving time at increasingly higher rates. The rate of imprisonment among African-American men has tumbled 22 percent since 2000, while the rate for white men is 4 percent higher than it was in 2000. As a result, the racial disparity has shrunk by nearly one quarter.
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