claim: the number of african-american men in prison has increased fivefold since he left office.
author: jimmy carter
evidence_1: aug 28, 2002 ... the number of black men in jail or prison has grown fivefold in the past 20 years,  to the ... some criminal justice experts said it was misleading to compare the two  ... but justice department figures show that from 1990 to 2000, 50 percent of the  .... it will appear with any comments you leave on nytimes.com.
evidence_2: the number of african-american men in prison has increased fivefold since he  left office. ... this week's ajc politifact georgia was brought to you by the word ...
evidence_3: although it is no longer increasing, the incarceration rate remains extremely high  ... that one in nine african-american men age 20–34 is in prison on any given day , and ... as a result, the criminal justice system now touches nearly as many  people in ... the flow of people into and out of prisons has contributed to  increasing ...
evidence_4: aug 16, 2018 ... today, there are twice as many people supervised on parole or probation as ...  instead, they have grown alongside a five-fold increase in ... 9 out of 10  correctional dollars is funneled to prisons according to a report ... it primarily  affects young african-american and latino men in low-income communities.
evidence_5: read chapter 2 rising incarceration rates: after decades of stability from the  1920s ... in absolute numbers, the prison and jail population had grown to 2.23  million ... birth cohorts of african american men who have not completed high  school. ...... had grown to be larger than the next largest system, the texas  department of ...