As one scholar opines, racial makeup of the rising prison population reflects a "new Jim Crow." What is meant by this?
a. The large numbers of African Americans in the prison population suggest the "Colored Only" accommodations that were once common in the American South.
b. It is a metaphorical way of saying that African Americans are being lynched today.
c. White skinheads are increasingly behaving like the KKK.
d. Prisons in the south and southwest actively try to increase the white population to create balance.
a
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