Black Weed Offenders 300% More Likely Imprisoned
by Anthony Sibley (AJ) on Jul 6, 2013 | Views: 453 | Score: 3
| White | Hispanic | Asian | Black | All Nonblack | Black vs. Nonblack | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Imprisonment Rate for Marijuana Offenses per 1,000,000 population age 18-69 | 0.24 | 0.47 | 0.16 | 3.16 | 0.31 | 1.02 |
| Percent of Total Marijuana Arrests Resulting in Imprisonment | 1.3 | 2.1 | 1.8 | 4.4 | 1.7 | 2.6 |
Race of Offender
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The Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice found that, in California, blacks were imprisoned at 13x the rate of non-black offenders, for the same crime. The Center concluded that the only way to make sense of this disparity was to imagine two separate justice systems existed-- one for blacks, and one for everyone else. The most important factor in predicting incarceration, as a result of a marijuana-related offense, was whether the offender was black. If these offenders have all been charged with the same exact crime, why is our distribution of justice within a rule-of-law society so skewed?
So true.