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WS MoreOrLess: Black prisoners in the US
More or Less: Behind the Stats
English - February 28, 2015 15:00 - 9 minutes - 8.8 MB - ★★★★★ - 740 ratingsNews Education Science Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Oscar-winner John Legend said that there are more black men "under correctional control" in the United States today than were in slavery in 1850. Is he right? Plus, how many Lego bricks, stacked one on top of the other, would it take to destroy the bottom brick?
This programme was first broadcast on the BBC World Service.