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Richard Blumenthal: “There are more African Americans now in prison under criminal supervision, prison, jail, probation, parole than all the…”

On the recordDecember 8, 2014
There are more African Americans now in prison under criminal supervision, prison, jail, probation, parole than all the slaves in 1850.
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Richard Blumenthal
Democratic · Connecticut

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Blumenthal highlights the disproportionate incarceration of African Americans compared to historical slavery.

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