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Study shows sharply different sentencing outcomes by race in three-county judicial district


DENEEN SMITH
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.
HUDSON: We re going to kill you through incarceration. We re going to kill you by sucking the very life out of you through incarceration, through the oppression of incarceration, through putting you in an environment where hope is around you, but not in you. That s what life without the possibility of parole says. As the inmate population has exploded in the U.S., so, too, has the number of people facing life imprisonment.According to a new study by the Sentencing Project, one in ....

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