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Texas led the nation with the largest number of people under criminal justice supervision, with 706,600 people. One out of every four adult black men in Texas is under some form of criminal justice supervision
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African-Americans represent 12 percent of the Texas population. they make up 44 percent of the total prison and jail population.
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and how many hispanic prisoners?
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Many of the young ex-cons seem traumatized by their recent experiences in a prison system characterized by organized prison gangs and harsh drug-sentencing laws. Four years for a minor marijuana charge.
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. . . headquarters of the state's Department of Criminal Justice is in Huntsville -- a small, conservative town that's home to NINE state prisons.
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http://www.npr.org/programs/atc/features/2001/sep/huntsville/010910.huntsville.html
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