On the recordAugust 3, 2015
In Wisconsin, African Americans constitute only 6 percent of the State population, a little bit more. Thirty-five percent of those incarcerated in State prisons are African American.
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Baldwin highlights racial disparities in Wisconsin's prison population.
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