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February 10, 2010

Total Johnson County inmates: 127

Number of African Americans
in jail: 54

% of African Americans in
jail: 43%

% of African Americans in
Johnson county: 3.65% (most recent census 05)

In Alabama, 26% of the population is African American. Nearly 63% of the Alabama prison population is African American. -Equal Justice Initiative

Read the Governor's Taskforce Report on African Americans in our Prisons

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"Aren't the police the protective force that maintains the status quo for the wealthy elite. Don't you think we ought to attack the roots of social problems instead of jamming people into overcrowded prisons?"

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Detainees Seek Legal Rights Guarantee

By MARK SHERMAN, Associated Press Writer

Lawyers for Guantanamo detainees held more than five years without charges asked the Supreme Court Monday to step in a third time to guarantee that they can challenge their confinement in U.S. courts.

The detainees want the justices to hear their case and issue a decision before the court ends its term in early summer.

"Not only are these questions of paramount legal importance, but the extreme and worsening plight of the Guantanamo detainees make them questions of great humanitarian urgency as well," lawyers for the detainees wrote in court papers urging the justices to decide the case.

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