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  2. Incarceration in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Nationally, one in 81 African American adults are serving time in America's state prisons. Black Americans are imprisoned at 5 times the rate of white people, and American Indians and Hispanic people are imprisoned at 4 times and 2 times the white rate, respectively. [2]

  3. List of American people imprisoned abroad - Wikipedia

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    This list represents a sample of American people imprisoned abroad by state and non-state actors, past and present. This list includes both citizens of the United States and legal permanent residents. It represents individuals imprisoned through various channels, including tried crimes and kidnappings.

  4. List of expulsions of African Americans - Wikipedia

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    The East St. Louis riots or East St. Louis massacres, of late May and July 1–3, 1917, were an outbreak of labor- and race-related violence by whites that caused the death of 40–250 black people and about $400,000 (over $8 million, in 2017 US dollars) in property damage. An estimated 6,000 black people were left homeless. May 1918 Erwin ...

  5. List of U.S. states and territories by incarceration and ...

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    From the source report: "This graph shows the number of people in state prisons, local jails, federal prisons, and other systems of confinement from each U.S. state and territory per 100,000 people in that state or territory and the incarceration rate per 100,000 in all countries with a total population of at least 500,000." [26]

  6. Race in the United States criminal justice system - Wikipedia

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    According to the United States Bureau of Justice, in 2014 6% of all Black males ages 30 to 39 were in prison, while 2% of Hispanic and 1% of White males in the same age group were in prison. There were 2,724 Black male prisoners with sentences over one year per 100,000 Black male residents in the United States, and a total of 516,900 Black male ...

  7. Prisoners of Profit - The Huffington Post

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    As an organized group of inmates began to assault guards, staff abandoned their posts and fled the jail. An INS official on site ordered the guards to go back in to quell the riot, but they refused. The detainees eventually took over the facility, using pieces of tables and chairs to break through security glass and destroy much of its interior ...

  8. Category:American prisoners and detainees - Wikipedia

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    Pages in category "American prisoners and detainees" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 702 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .

  9. United States incarceration rate - Wikipedia

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    One out of every 15 people imprisoned across the world is a Black American incarcerated in the United States. [66] A 2004 study reported that the majority of people sentenced to prison in the United States are Black, and almost one-third of Black men in their twenties are either on parole, on probation, or in prison. [67]