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Graph showing the Black people are disproportionately serving life, life without parole, or \

Data Source: Sources: Census Bureau Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for July 1, 2016 (NC-EST2019-SR11H) & the Sentencing Project report Still Life: America’s Increasing Use of Life and Long-Term Sentences Table 4. (Graph: Wendy Sawyer, 2020)

This graph originally appeared in Visualizing the racial disparities in mass incarceration.

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