According to a recent study from the University of Wisconsin in Milwaukee, 13 percent of Wisconsin's African American men of working age were behind bars, which is almost double the national average of 6.7 percent.
Baldwin cites alarming statistics on incarceration rates among African American men in Wisconsin.
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