Word: explainers
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When prior reports have shown racial discrepancies in incarceration rates, critics have rushed to counter that minorities commit a disproportionate amount of crime. However, this response cannot explain the disparities at each stage in the process documented by the national and state data compiled by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and other federal agencies. Blacks under the age of 18 make up 15 percent of their age group and 26 percent of those arrested. But they also represent 46 percent of all juveniles referred to adult criminal courts, 40 percent of those sent to juvenile prisons and 58 percent...
Mills gave a brief presentation of the report's findings, and then students peppered the administrators with questions, challenging Mills to explain why the report did not call for a living wage...
...project that's been lingering, she says. The guide will explain how the committee does business and list the members and subcommittees and will be distributed to parents through the schools...
...from a big state where the voters like me. B) I can raise a lot of money. C) I am a woman. D) I often dress as a woman. E) Other (please explain...
...laborer and two dozen other guys in work shirts and battered jeans are gathered in the basement of Eagle County's government building, hard by the vacation resorts of Vail, Beaver Creek and Copper Mountain. They're listening to instructor Gustavo Heredia explain bail bonds, warrants and plea bargains. Many in the crowd are recent arrivals from Mexico. None can speak English. And all are in trouble for such offenses as drunk driving, driving without insurance, spousal abuse and fighting. Four-fifths of them are in the U.S. illegally, but deportation is no big worry in the Colorado resort country...