Report Shows Race Discrepancy in Sentencing

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Young African Americans in Wisconsin are four times more likelyto get sentenced to life without parole than their white counterparts. That’s the finding of a new report from Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International. Gil Halsted reports…

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