Black men in prison

More than half of all black men in Baltimore in their 20s are either incarcerated or under criminal justice system supervision according to a study:

According to the institute's report, there are about 25,000 black men in Baltimore between the ages of 20 and 30, and 52 percent of them are incarcerated or on parole or probation. Statewide, nearly 10 percent of black men in their 20s are incarcerated in either jail or prison. In the city, the percentage is nearly 20 percent, the study found.

State corrections officials confirmed yesterday the accuracy of the incarceration figures used to derive most of those statistics.

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