[Magdalen] Yet another case of race abuse?

[James Oppenheimer-Crawford]

On Fri, Oct 2, 2015 at 1:51 PM, Sibyl Smirl <polycarpa3 at ckt.net> wrote:

> I didn't say that Black people mattered less.  I said that I personally
> know of a lot of white people in prison, many of them for drugs, which is
> where this thing started, with Colorado's legalization.  You were
> apparently saying that only black people get sent to prison.

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Some statistics to consider:

*Incarceration Trends in America*

   - From 1980 to 2008, the number of people incarcerated in America
   quadrupled-from roughly 500,000 to 2.3 million people
   - Today, the US is 5% of the World population and has 25% of world
   prisoners.
   - Combining the number of people in prison and jail with those under
   parole or probation supervision, 1 in ever y 31 adults, or 3.2 percent of
   the population is under some form of correctional control

*Racial Disparities in Incarceration*

   - African Americans now constitute nearly 1 million of the total 2.3
   million incarcerated population
   - African Americans are incarcerated at nearly six times the rate of
   whites

from
http://www.naacp.org/pages/criminal-justice-fact-sheet
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James W. Oppenheimer-Crawford
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