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Ntfs_encryption
"Cyniquian" Level Poster
Username: Ntfs_encryption
Post Number: 2419
Registered: 10-2005
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, July 20, 2007 - 02:02 pm: | 
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Study shows racial disparities in prison
By DAVID PITT, Associated Press Writer
Wed Jul 18, 3:01 PM ET
Blacks in the United States are imprisoned at more than five times the rate of whites, and Hispanics are locked up at nearly double the white rate, according to a study released Wednesday by a criminal justice policy group.
The report by the Sentencing Project, a Washington-based think tank, found that states in the Midwest and Northeast have the greatest black-to-white disparity in incarceration. Iowa had the widest disparity in the nation, imprisoning blacks at more than 13 times the rate of whites.
Such figures "reflect a failure of social and economic interventions to address crime effectively," as well as racial bias in the justice system, said Marc Mauer, the group's executive director.
Vermont, New Jersey, Connecticut and Wisconsin incarcerated blacks at more than 10 times the rate of whites, the group said, citing Justice Department statistics from 2005. Vermont had a ratio of 12.5, followed by New Jersey with 12.4 and Connecticut with 12.
States with the lowest black-to-white ratio were Hawaii, with 1.9, Georgia with 3.3 and Mississippi with 3.5.
In Iowa, blacks are imprisoned at a rate more than double the national average. For every 100,000 people, Iowa incarcerates 309 whites and 4,200 blacks, the study said.
Paul Stageberg, administrator of the Iowa Division of Criminal and Juvenile Justice Planning, said the results are not surprising, but the causes are subject to interpretation.
He said the state's disproportionately high black arrest rates are likely linked to high poverty rates among blacks and lower educational achievement.
In 2001, a governor's task force released a report that said 24 percent of Iowa prison beds were occupied by black inmates even though blacks comprised just over 2 percent of the state's population.
The group that compiled Wednesday's report made several recommendations such as reviewing federal drug laws and giving judges more discretion to decide sentences rather than imposing mandatory minimum prison terms.
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Serenasailor
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Username: Serenasailor
Post Number: 1746
Registered: 01-2006
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Votes: 3 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, July 20, 2007 - 02:14 pm: |
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Give me a break NTFS like you really CARE??
Or maybe I'm wrong maybe this is beginning to affect you!!
Maybe your non-Black, Neo-Con counterparts are beginning to 'harass' you and you are so DESPERATE to prove that you are not 'like the rest of us'.
Now give us your speech about the prevailing 'coon' culture, your demonization of poor Blacks, and Black females and tell us how they are making us all look "bad".
Then this is going to open up the floodgates about all the other reasons why loathe Black ppl so much. Like why your 'Carltonish' refuse to date Black women. Or more violent diatribe about Black womens skin color, hair texture.
GO ON I'M WAITING!!! |
Ntfs_encryption
"Cyniquian" Level Poster
Username: Ntfs_encryption
Post Number: 2421
Registered: 10-2005
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, July 20, 2007 - 03:01 pm: |
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"Give me a break NTFS like you really CARE??
Or maybe I'm wrong maybe this is beginning to affect you!!
Maybe your non-Black, Neo-Con counterparts are beginning to 'harass' you..............
GO ON I'M WAITING!!!"
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Serenasailor
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Username: Serenasailor
Post Number: 1749
Registered: 01-2006
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Votes: 5 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, July 20, 2007 - 06:55 pm: |
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More White Supremacist rhetoric from from the White Supremacist media and there Negrosoid worshippers like NTFS who are so desperate to prove that they are not like the rest of us. |
Cynique
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Username: Cynique
Post Number: 9365
Registered: 01-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, July 20, 2007 - 11:37 pm: |
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You missed the whole point of the article, dim bulb SS. Did you read this sentence:"Such figures 'reflect a failure of social and economic interventions to address crime effectively,' as well as racial bias in the justice system, said Marc Mauer, the group's executive director."
The high black prison population is something to focus on, not to be in denial about. All black leaders worth their salt are decrying the situation and demanding that something be done about the inequities that exist in the courts! Sheeze, |
Serenasailor
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Username: Serenasailor
Post Number: 1753
Registered: 01-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, July 20, 2007 - 11:47 pm: |
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YOU MUST HAVE YOUR HEARING AIDE UP TOO HIGH AGAIN CYNIQUE!!
Engaging in conversations that don't concern you. |
Cynique
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Username: Cynique
Post Number: 9369
Registered: 01-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, July 21, 2007 - 12:09 am: |
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You're so stupid, SS. You don't have to be able to hear in order to read. And who says this thread has to be limited to your dumb-assed comments? |
Mzuri
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Username: Mzuri
Post Number: 5367
Registered: 01-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, July 21, 2007 - 12:57 am: |
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This is so deep because it begins with the lack of economic opportunities within the Black community, it goes to the racist police who will stop and investigate a Black person while a white person can get away with the same exact thing (which doesn't make it right but still), seemingly two sets of standards - one for Blacks and another for whitey - and then you have the racist judges and juries applying these double-standards.
And let's not forget that they are sending innocent people to prison
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=070628135531.31cukrus&show_article=1
Our entire judicial system is a great big mess.
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Yorubaprincess
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Username: Yorubaprincess
Post Number: 90
Registered: 07-2007
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, July 21, 2007 - 03:54 am: |
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Reading this is making a beyotch cry |
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