Economists and law professors at Harvard, the University of Chicago, and the University of Pennsylvania have published a new study that confirms what reformers have been saying for decades: the criminal justice system is racially biased.
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As reported on: Thinkprogress.org
Those of us seeking to end mass incarceration know it is the New Jim Crow. With more black men under the control of corrections departments than were enslaved on the eve of the Civil War, mass incarceration is the biggest civil rights issue of our time.
We’ve presented data pleading for reform to remove the chokehold of poverty-to-prison from our communities: people of color make up 30 percent of the United States’ population, but account for 60 percent of those in prison; black defendants receive longer prison sentence than white defendants; black Americans are far more likely to be arrested than white people.
In order to end this system of injustice, the members of the community must do their part as well. We have to plead for reform to change the system, but we all have to get innovative and find new ways to change the mindsets of these young brothers and sisters who are being affected by this oppressive system.
SOURCE: Thinkprogesive.org
