Wealth doesn't protect US blacks from greater chance of incarceration

Thursday, March 10, 2016 - 13:00 in Psychology & Sociology

The chances of incarceration in America are always higher for blacks than for whites or Hispanics, regardless of their level of wealth, according to a new study led by Khaing Zaw of Duke University in the U.S. In addition, blacks and Hispanics who had previously served jail time were significantly poorer than their white counterparts.

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