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•      The United States has the largest documented incarceration in the
                  world.
           •      Year end 2009 the rate was 743 adults incarcerated per 100,000.
           •      Blacks account for 39.4% of the total prison and jail population in
                  2009 and only comprised 12.6% of the U.S. population.
           •      Black non-Hispanic males were incarcerated at the rate of 4,749
                  per 100,000 U.S. residents.
           •      White males were incarcerated at the rate of 708 per 100,000 U.S.
                  residents.
           •      Hispanic males were incarcerated at the rate of 1822 inmates per
                  100,000 U.S. residents.
           •      There are over 1.5 million Children who have parents incarcerated
                  in the U.S. and over 70,000 in State of Florida.


           “What affects one directly affects us all indirectly…….”
              Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
           “Incarceration affects us ALL…………” Pastor Gregory L. James



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