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RE: Vermont has 4th highest Afro-am incarceration in USA

From:awatson@hillaryclinton.com To: zpetkanas@hillaryclinton.com, creynolds@hillaryclinton.com CC: mharris@hillaryclinton.com, john.podesta@gmail.com, zmaxwell@hillaryclinton.com, tgoff@hillaryclinton.com, mfisher@hillaryclinton.com, tcarrk@hillaryclinton.com Date: 2016-02-24 14:11 Subject: RE: Vermont has 4th highest Afro-am incarceration in USA

Googling it looks like there’s been a drip of stories on it for a while, including by Vermont press... 2007, 2012, 2014, 2015. Maybe there’s a point about how he was, for nearly a decade, silent on a growing problem covered repeatedly by his own state’s press… not even a statement (if that’s true). Was he not paying attention to his own press clips? And now he wants to address it? I know he obviously wasn’t the governor... but still. * + Watson Watson and I were talking about this yesterday. We thought we could maybe get someone to draw a line between his vote for the crime bill and Vermont's high incarceration rate -- tied in with the Daily Beast story that he ignored African-Americans in the state. On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 10:48 AM, Christina Reynolds < creynolds@hillaryclinton.com> wrote: Adding Zerlina and Zac. This was a part of the Daily Beast story that we worked around aggressively, so I think it’s been pitched, but they may have other ideas of where to goGwith this. * Don't think he's answered for it and don't think he ever sought to do anything about it. Tony - can we confirm he didn't push any CJ reform in VT? If he hasn't taken leadership, we can ask Zerlina to push around to our Twitter friends. On Feb 24, 2016, at 4:44 AM, John Podesta <john.podesta@gmail.com> wrote: This is good stuff for paranoid internet dwellers. Did Bernie ever say a word about this? ---------- Forwarded message ---------- NY state does way better than Vermont, in the bottom five. Arkansas is in the bottom ten lowest states for black male incarceration rates http://www.sentencingproject.org/doc/publications/rd_stateratesofincbyraceandethnicity.pdf The doc is from 2007. You will need to fact check. I can look tomorrow, but I thought I would get this out so you'd have it bright and early tomorrow. <rd_stateratesofincbyraceandethnicity.pdf>