Jerry Large's column (Seattle Times) this morning led me to King County's Equity and Social Justice Initiative website:
The King County Equity and Social Justice Initiative takes aim at long-standing and persistent local inequities and injustices. Government and local communities are better prepared than ever before to address these challenges.A pdf of the report is here. See pp. 16-17 for a discussion of adult and juvenile detention.
"It is unacceptable that the color of your skin or your home address are good predictors of whether you will have a low birth weight baby, die from diabetes or your children will graduate from high school or end up in jail," says King County Executive Ron Sims.
The King County Equity and Social Justice Initiative aims to end persistent local inequities and injustices that result in, among other things, higher rates of disease among low-income populations and disproportionate rates of young black men in jail.
In Seattle, Mayor Nickels's Race and Social Justice Initiative was started several years ago.
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