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Graph showing that while North Carolina is 22% Black, the state's prisons are 61% Black. Also shows that North Carolina is 72% White, but the state's prisons are 33% White.

Data Source: North Carolina Department of Corrections and U.S. Census, July 31, 2003. (Graph: Peter Wagner, 2003)

This graph originally appeared in Racial Disparities in North Carolina Incarceration.



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