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Activists Seek Parity for Blacks in Criminal Justice System

Khalid Abdar-Rashid tried to keep quiet.

He told the 10 people who met to brainstorm ways to reduce the number of African-Americans in Iowa prisons that he didn’t want to share his views because they were conservative.

But, then he really got to talking. The state has long studied the disproportionate number of blacks in prison, but [...]