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Education, Poverty, and Rural vs. Urban Incarceration Rates

July 14, 2017 Pamela Oliver Criminal justice, Imprisonment

In a previous post, I showed how the White imprisonment rate rose in rural counties even as the Black and White imprisonment rates in metropolitan areas fell. In this post, I show that the White rural-urban difference in imprisonment is linked to the White rural-urban difference in poverty and education,

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White rural imprisonment rates

July 7, 2017 Pamela Oliver Criminal justice, Imprisonment

Unremarked until very recently* , there is a hidden story to be told about the rise in White incarceration in the United States to supplement the story about the mass incarceration of Black people I and many others have been writing about for years. The White story has been going

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State Scatterplots: Why is Wisconsin Still the Worst for Black Imprisonment?

October 3, 2016 Pamela Oliver Criminal justice, Wisconsin

Wisconsin has stayed at the top of the pile in Black incarceration even though its Black incarceration rate has been declining. How can this be? The answer is that all the other states have been declining faster. By putting a scatter plot of state imprisonment rates on consistent axes, I’ve

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