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Racial disparities in incarceration have fallen.
Source: nytimes.com
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Disparities between Black and white state imprisonment rates are continuing to decline, but at a slower rate than in previous years, according to a report recently released by the Council on Criminal Justice.
Word spreads that the suspects in two violent attacks there this month had been released from prison before serving their full sentences for prior convictions.
"People are drawn to the attention," Thaddeus Johnson, a senior fellow with the Council on Criminal Justice, told Newsweek.
ATLANTA — Guns in Georgia’s public schools are on the rise.