Published 2/5/2009
by Carrie Johnson and Krissah Thompson
at Wash Post Federal Page
For decades, the face of the criminal justice system in this country has been black and male: hundreds of thousands locked behind bars, arrested in disproportionate numbers and facing execution at rates far greater than those for the general population.
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