We’ve Been Through This Before May 6, 2008
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And we’ll have to go through it again.
US blacks jailed at higher rate for drugs than whites: report
African-Americans are arrested and imprisoned for drug-related crimes at a much higher rate than white offenders, even though whites commit more drug offenses in the United States, a rights group said.
A black man is 12 times more likely to be sent to prison for a drug offense than a white man, according to a Human Rights Watch report titled “Targeting Blacks: Drug Law Enforcement and Race in the United States.”
A black woman is five times more likely to go to jail for a drug crime than a white counterpart, said the report, which is based on a review of statistics in 34 US states.
In 16 states, including Virginia, Pennsylvania, Maryland and New York, blacks are sentenced to prison for drug offenses at a rate 10 to 42 times higher than whies.
“Most drug offenders are white, but most of the drug offenders sent to prison are black,” said the report’s author, Jamie Fellner, senior counsel in the US program at Human Rights Watch.
Not all “drug offenses” are the same. Possessing a gram of pot is a “drug offense,” and dealing crack cocaine is also a “drug offense.” It’s just that blacks are far more likely to commit the more serious kinds of “drug offenses,” and more likely to commit the ones that result in prison time.
If one would adjust for the specific drug offense, then one would probably find that whites are more likely to go to prison than blacks. Especially rural whites, where a “hanging jury” and/or a “hanging judge” (which there are a lot more of in white rural areas) would send a drug convict to prison for an offense that would not draw prison time for a black convict in the black/liberal cities with its black juries and black/white lib judges.
