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This website compares the incarceration rate of minorities in the United States to 27 other selected countries throughout the world. Leading with over over 700,000 incarcerated people, over half of those are minorities. Following up are Russia and Belarus with around 690,000 people incarcerated.

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The sentencing project is a highly detailed website that goes into depth about the incarceration rate between whites, hispanics and African Americans. For example, comparing white to black in the District of Columbia, 56 whites (per 100,000) were incarcerated compared to the 1,065 blacks incarcerated. Comparing whites, hispanics and african americans though, Hawii has the lowest incarceration rate for Hispanics, falling at 185 to the 453 whites and 851 incarcerated African Americans.

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Believe it or not, between 8% to 12% of every man, women, and child sentenced for incarceration are innocent. The law in the United States of America states that the American person is innocent until proven guilty in all cases with one in exception: Whether your black, whitem, hispanic, green, blue, yellow or orange, the criminal justice system believes that if your involved in a SAID's case, you are guilty until proven innocent. SAID's is short for Sexual Abuse In Divorce Syndrome, or in other terms it means that if your (the father in most cases) are being accused of child molestation, you will be guilty until proven innocent.

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Every year, tons of innocent people are executed due to faltey evidence and mis evaluation. This website tells the stories of falsley accused people and how due to many of the forensics investigators errors, innocent people lost their lives. For example, one man by the name of Gary Gauger was executed on belief of murdering his mother and father. Little evidence was found linking Gary to the murder, but prosecutors managed to get a "confession" out of him. Prosecutors lied to Gary saying they had a large stack of evidence linking the murder to him, and after months of interrigation, Gary stated that he may have blacked out and not have remembered committing the crime. Prosecutors sentenced Gary to death and months after his execution, two bikers were busted talking about what really happened that night, but soon after, the case was dismissed.

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What exactly causes people to wrongly incarcerate somebody? This websites tells of the many ways that people are falsley incarcerated. For years, African Americans have taken the lead for highest record of exoneree's due to unvalidated or improper forensic science, which plays a role of an estimated 50% of wrongful convictions (before DNA testing was discovered), to eyewitness misidentification. Before DNA testing, around 22% of all conviction cases were discharged due to false evidence.