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The report by FWD.us says African American men make up 13% of Mississippi’s population but are 75% of those receiving sentences of at least 20 years. The report says the 78 Mississippi inmates serving sentences of at least 50 years for drug crimes were sentenced to a collective 4,668 years and they have already been imprisoned 1,108 years. Photo by Trip Burns

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