Trivia Question: Which type of detention facilities do you think showed the greatest growth in 2007? If you guessed Youth Prisons... you... are... wrong. Sorry. The correct answer is Detention Centers, up 43%.
Here's another amazing fact. In Iowa, the first primary won by Barack Obama, Blacks are imprisoned at 13.6 times the rate of Whites.
Classroom applications: rates and percents, growth, slope, statistics
NY Times, "Justice Department Numbers Show Prison Trends" article Click Here.
BJS reports Click Here
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