In 12 States, More Than Half the Prison Population is Black: Alabama, Delaware, Georgia, Illinois...

[KamaAina]

Louisiana, Maryland, Michigan, Mississippi….

http://breakingbrown.com/2016/06/12-states-half-prison-population-black-alabama-delaware-georgia-illinois-louisiana-maryland-michigan-mississippi/

The Sentencing Project’s study, The Color of Justice: Racial and Ethnic Disparity in State Prisons, lays out a bleak glimpse into the consequences of being black, especially a black man, in America. The report compared the rates of incarceration for whites, Hispanics and blacks. What the report found was an astronomical incarceration rate for black men that dwarfed all other demographics....

African Americans are incarcerated in state prisons at a rate that is 5.1 times the imprisonment of whites. In five states (Iowa, Minnesota, New Jersey, Vermont, and Wisconsin), the disparity is more than 10 to 1.

In twelve states, more than half of the prison population is black: Alabama, Delaware, Georgia, Illinois, Louisiana, Maryland, Michigan, Mississippi, New Jersey, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Virginia. Maryland, whose prison population is 72% African American, tops the nation.

In eleven states, at least 1 in 20 adult black males is in prison.

;banghead:

[scscholar]

1. I would point out that Vermont is Bernie's home, but...

I won't since I got hate messages last time I did that. Sure, let's just give him a pass for everything.

[aikoaiko]

2. I took a few tours of prisons in southeast GA as a part of my job.

The ratio of black to white inmates was striking especially at the lower levels.

I don't think I've ever felt more white than when the COs would make the nearly all black prisoners stand at attention and demand that they answer our questions as we walked through the blocks and dorms.

[JI7]

3. there was an article about black preschool kids being suspended at higher rate from school

It starts early.

[davidn3600]

4. Sorry to say...this won't change anytime soon

This has become an industry. And although both parties have given some attention to the massive prison population that we have...neither party is actually pushing to implement any real change.