How the pandemic exacerbated racial inequalities in the US criminal legal system (IMAGE)

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How the pandemic exacerbated racial inequalities in the US criminal legal system

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Figure 1: Dynamics of the U.S. prison population, showing (A) the total number of incarcerated people in the U.S. from January 2013 to January 2022 and (B) the total percent of incarcerated Black people. (image: PNAS/Klein et.al.)

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