An Alabama Prison’s Unrelenting Descent Into Violence – Campbell Robertson / NYT

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This article is very disturbing and excellently researched. However, there are no racial statistics of the inmate population presented. The Black community in Alabama represents 26% of the total population, but 54% of incarcerated individuals. We can assume at a minimum that half the population at St. Clair is Black.

Read the entire article here.