Private Prisons House More Latinos Than Do Public Ones, Study Finds
In March, Rina Palta reported for Code Switch on a study that found private prisons were disproportionately filled with inmates of color. A broader recent study of federal data from 2005 has revealed something similar: The proportion of white inmates was significantly smaller in private prisons than in public ones, and the proportion of Latino inmates was larger.
▻http://www.npr.org/blogs/codeswitch/2014/08/10/339150805/private-prisons-house-more-latinos-than-do-public-ones-study-finds
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