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Angela Arboleda's interview about over-representation of Latinos in prison, jail, and immigrant detention thanks to “incarceration fever.”

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Kathleen Pequeño, editor of Justice Matters, spoke with Angela Arboleda, NCLR’s Associate Director of Criminal Justice Policy, about overrepresentation of Latinos in prison, jail, and immigrant detention thanks to “incarceration fever.”

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In a phone conversation with Kathleen Pequeño about the over-representation of Latinos in prison, jail, and immigrant detention, Angela Arboleda says, “Of the six million people in the criminal justice system and the 2.2 million people behind bars, approximately 75% are people of color. In the federal system, for example, at least one in six people are Latino and one in four is African American".

Link: http://safetyandjustice.org/info/nation/story/1122

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