Report: Maryland tops list of black lifers 

Posted: 1:00 am Wed, July 22, 2009
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Maryland has the highest proportion of blacks serving life sentences of any state in the country, according to a study released Wednesday by The Sentencing Project. More than three quarters of the state’s “lifers” — 76.7 percent — are black, as compared to a national average of 48.3 percent, the Washington, D.C.-based research and advocacy group ...