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Black People 6 Times More Likely to Be Jailed Than Whites in Vermont

The Crime Report

According to the Justice Center of the Council of State Governments, despite making up only 1.4 percent of the population, Black people in Vermont were six times more likely to be jailed than white people in 2019, reports VTDigger. It would report on problems it identifies so that the court can take action.

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The U.S. Needs a Federal Commission on Wrongful Convictions: Paper

The Crime Report

Of the 1,385,258 people in prison for felony convictions in 2019, it is estimated one to five percent—or between 13,853 and 69,263 people—at the end of 2019 were in prison for crimes they did not commit. The first recorded wrongful conviction case occurred in 1812 in Vermont and involved two brothers falsely accused and convicted of murder.