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In the Wisconsin judicial district made up of Kenosha, Racine and Walworth counties, black men are more than 50 percent more likely to be sentenced to prison than white men accused of similar crimes, a study shows. According to data included in a draft report for the Wisconsin Court System, the three-county Second Circuit District has among the state’s worst disparities in sentencing outcomes when comparing white men charged with crimes to black and Hispanic men. The report was created by the court system’s Office of Research and Justice Statistics, which presented the draft version in January 2020. The study — which states it is building on an analysis conducted by Wisconsin Supreme Court Chief Justice Patience Roggensack in 2016 — looked at differences by race for felony cases sentenced in Wisconsin between 2009 and 2018. The study looks at the state as a whole, and by outcomes in the state’s nine judicial districts.

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