Why does Wisconsin send so many black people to jail?

[hue]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-24119398

For decades in the US, the incarceration rate for African Americans has been much higher than for whites, a racial disparity the US Attorney General Eric Holder has described as "shameful".

In part to address this, Mr Holder unveiled a policy shift that will mean the US locks up fewer people convicted of non-violent, drugs offences.

The state that locks up the highest percentage of black men is Wisconsin. The national average is 6.7%, but in Wisconsin it's 12.8% - more than three percentage points higher than the second-placed state, Oklahoma.

[TheMightyFavog]

1. So they don't vote.

[DiverDave]

2. Um, Thats true

and no sarcasm

[Half-Century Man]

3. The exact reason felons lose their rights of citizenship.

To extract the voting rights of minorities.
That is the reason they are stopped more often, searched more often, get charges piled on indiscriminately, etc.