{"id":346,"date":"2020-09-16T11:49:29","date_gmt":"2020-09-16T16:49:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gentropy.org\/blogs\/?p=346"},"modified":"2020-09-16T11:49:29","modified_gmt":"2020-09-16T16:49:29","slug":"one-third-of-black-men-have-felony-convictions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gentropy.org\/blogs\/2020\/09\/16\/one-third-of-black-men-have-felony-convictions\/","title":{"rendered":"One-Third of Black Men Have Felony Convictions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sentencingproject.org\/news\/5593\/\">Race &amp; Justice News: One-Third of Black Men Have Felony Convictions | The Sentencing Project<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In\u00a0\u201cGrowth in the U.S. Ex-Felon and Ex-Prisoner Population, 1948 to 2010,\u201d\u00a0Sarah Shannon and colleagues estimate that one-third of black men had a felony conviction in 2010\u2014a significant increase over the past 30 years and far above the rate for white men. Published in\u00a0Demography, the study develops national and state-level estimates for the frequency of both felony convictions and incarceration. The researchers found that the percentage of black men with a felony conviction increased from 13% in 1980 to 33% in 2010 (compared to 5% and 13% for all adult men during these periods, respectively). They also estimate that the percentage of black men who had experienced imprisonment increased from 6% in 1980 to 15% in 2010 (compared to 2% and 6% for all adult men during these periods, respectively). These estimates are \u201cthe first attempt to provide state-level demographic information about people with felony convictions in the United States, a population defined by incomplete citizenship and the temporary or permanent suspension of many rights and privileges.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Race &amp; Justice News: One-Third of Black Men Have Felony Convictions | The Sentencing Project In\u00a0\u201cGrowth in the U.S. Ex-Felon and Ex-Prisoner Population, 1948 to 2010,\u201d\u00a0Sarah Shannon and colleagues estimate that one-third of black men had a felony conviction in 2010\u2014a significant increase over the past 30 years and far above the rate for white [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gentropy.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gentropy.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gentropy.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gentropy.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gentropy.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=346"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gentropy.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":347,"href":"https:\/\/gentropy.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346\/revisions\/347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gentropy.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gentropy.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gentropy.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}