Update: While Vera Institute of Justice and One Love Global will still be hosting a forum on how prosecutor's offices work, they will not be presenting the racial data Wednesday. The data will be released at a later date.
LANSING — Over the past year, the Ingham County Prosecutor's Office has been working with the Vera Institute of Justice to compile data to learn where racial inequalities are most prevalent in their prosecution.
Now they're ready to present it.
The findings aren't pretty, Ingham County Prosecutor Carol Siemon said. But it's important prosecutors look at the data to see what changes they can make to try to decrease inequities in the system.
Read more at Lansing State Journal.
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