The Marshall Project recently reported on a study of over 30,000 plea deals in misdemeanor cases in Wisconsin. It found that white people were 74% more likely than black people to have all charges carrying potential prison time dropped, dismissed or reduced. Read more here.
No data in this article, it probably didn’t control for the county, and it is about New York.
The study that is the focus of the article is about Wisconsin. The study’s author chose to focus on Dane County as having a large number of cases to study and a racial makeup close to that of the state as a whole.
Seems about right. We have a racially mixed son in the DOC serving a 37 year sentence. His appeal process’s have been met with nothing but negative outcomes over the past 18 years.