New York state, blacks make up about 16% of the population, but well over half of all prisoners.
the age-old overlap between poverty and race plays itself out in a peculiarly cruel way as regards drug prisoners: African Americans are estimated to make up 14% of the country's drug users, yet over half of those sentenced to prison on drug charges. In part that might be attributable to deliberate racism.
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