Abstract
When the system of ethnic monitoring was frst adopted by the Prisons Department in England and Wales in 1985, it was revealed that those who were identifed as black constituted 8 per cent of the prison population, although they only made up approximately 1 per cent of the general population. Since that time the proportion of both male and female black prisoners has grown steadily, such that by 1995, 11 per cent of the male prison population and 20 per cent of the female population were classifed as black. By 2005, minority ethnic groups accounted for 24 per cent of the male prison population and 28 per cent of the female prison population, including foreign nations. The racial disproportionality among those incarcerated is particularly pronounced amongst the remand population (Ministry of Justice, 2007b).
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