Causes of the rapid increase in the numbers of African Americans in prison include __________

A) holdover legislation from the Jim Crow era that mandated racial bias in sentencing
B) a decline in drug use among white Americans
C) rising violent crime rates over the course of the 1990s
D) both persistent poverty and targeted police surveillance of black communities


Answer: D

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