Black inmates now constitute roughly 38% of the nearly 2.2 million people incarcerated in U.S. prisons and jails Bureau of justice statistics [BJS], 2007), where they are overrepresented relative to other populations. ... This movement was part of a broader shift toward formalism and rationalization in American criminal law. ...

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