New study reveals high percentage of Black Georgia inmates, despite national decrease in black incarceration

Reforms to law enforcement and sentencing of drug and property crimes have transformed criminal justice policies around the country; researchers note, however, that this still has not changed Georgia’s incarceration demographic.

Over the past four decades, mass incarceration has disproportionately affected people of color.

Since 2009, there has been a 25% decline in the total prison population, according to a new study by The Sentencing Project titled “One In Five: Ending Racial Equality in Incarceration.”