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According to Schlanger, the number of inmates began to soar in 1980, and that increase gave rise to a disproportionate minority inmate population...
...Schlanger said there were more fundamental social reasons behind the high incarceration rate...
...Poor people commit more crimes, so you would expect to see different offending rates” across groups, Schlanger said...
Different groups are also characterized by different crime patterns, according to Schlanger...
...Schlanger also said that some states, including Massachusetts, impose more stringent penalties for dealing drugs near schools—and that such laws affect mostly minorities, since a larger percentage of minorities live in urban areas, and thus near schools, than whites...