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Politics : Al Gore vs George Bush: the moderate's perspective

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To: scoobypax who wrote (1381)	10/6/2000 12:49:11 PM
From: cosmicforce	Read Replies (2) of 10042

ritesofpassage.org The statistic is worse than you think. Here is a good article. Here is an excerpt to the point (read it and weep -- it sure made me want to) Thirty-nine percent of African American males in their twenties were either in prisons, jails, or on probation, according to a report by the Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice. While almost four in ten young black males were under some form of criminal justice control, only one in ten Latino males, and one in twenty white males were. The study found that five times as many black males as white males suffered arrests at the height of the War on Drugs in 1989. The "Three Strikes" law also resulted indisproportionate black male incarceration with seventeen times as many being imprisoned as white males in Los Angeles. Other stages of the criminal justice process fed into the disproproportionate imprisonment (see Table 4): charges were reduced for one-third of white first-time offenders compared to only one fourth of black first-time offenders; prison sentences were given out one-third more to blacks in comparison to whites; and prison sentences were longer for blacks.(Krikorian, 1996).

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