Private correctional facilities, employs the cheapest labor without social protection, a prosperous business in 27 states and 120 penitentiaries. Prisoners work for Microsoft, Starbucks and Jansport and others.
There is some belief efforts are under way to export private prisons to Latin American and Europe seeking greater profits.
California has one of the largest prison systems in the world with more public funds slated to the prison system than what goes to education.
The tragedy is not that these people are somehow (inferentially for no reason of their own) in prison. It is that they got sent to prison because they did not learn civilized behavior. The errors are in their parents, their schools, their institutions (such as churches, etc.), and in their communities generally.
And yet, it is precisely such people as Tucker who will resist tooth and nail demanding "moral" standards in schools, "moral" standards in institutions, responsibility where it is most important -- and most lacking -- in the biological sources of these prisoners otherwise known as their parents.
Congressman Billybob
More Government Proof Tucked Away
Why doesn't the press report this?The Report: "The racial distribution of arrestees for rape is similar to the racial distribution for all violent UCR arrests--56% of arrestees for rape in 1995 were "white," 42% were Black, and 2% were of other races."
[The 1995 FBI Uniform Crime Reports is being cited here.]
[Quotation marks around "Whites" added because DOJ includes most Hispanics as whites.]
To confuse rather than elucidate, the DOJ and the FBI classify most Hispanics as "White", although the majority of Hispanics are non-white. The category "Other" refers to American Indians and Orientals. Offenders from the Middle East, India, Pakistan, etc. are also classified as "White". Therefore, I've placed quotation marks around White where ever it appears in the DOJ text.
Greenfeld boldly misleads casual readers! In the 3-page Executive Summary (1/97, NCJ-163931, p. 1) for the full 39-page report, the BJS Statistician Lawrence Greenfeld comments: "Federal statistical series obtaining data on arrested or convicted persons... show a remarkable similarly in the characteristics of those characterized as rapists:... 6 in 10 are "white",..." (?) If the Department of Justice would separate Hispanics from Whites, whites would be less than half of the offenders, possible only one-third. However, even 6 in 10 is not a "remarkable similarity," especially when 72% of the population is non-Hispanic whites. When less than half the offenders are of any one race, there is no similarity. In the Executive Summary, Greenfeld draws the wrong conclusion to mislead readers without the time or inclination to check out and understand the full report.
"Rapes with Black offenders and black victims were about twice as likely as "white-on-white" rapes to involve the use of a gun or knife (14% versus 7%), but interracial rapes, black-on-white or white-on-black [of course White-on-Black rapes are so scarce that this statistic more accurately reflects Black-on-White rapes], were equally likely to involve the use of a gun or knife (about 22%)."
Characteristic All Violent Rape Sexual Assault Estimated number
of offenders, 1994429,400 33,800 54,300 Male 96.2% 99.6% 98.8% Female 3.8 0.4 1.2 "White" 48.1 52.2 73.9 Black 48.2 43.7 22.8 Other 3.7 4.1 3.3
Note in the above statistics that while Black males make up only about 6% of the US population, they commit over half of all violent crimes and over 43% of all rapes. The "Other" category is primarily Asian-American and American Indian.
MURDERS INVOLVING SEXUAL ASSAULT
WSW: The following table details the "characteristics of known offenders in murders involving sexual assault from 1976-94."
Murders |
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| Characteristic | All | Sexual Assault |
| Male | 86.6% | 95% |
| Female | 13.4% | 5.0% |
| "White" | 47.8% | 58.0% |
| Black | 50.3% | 39.9% |
| Other | 1.9% | 2.1 |
Source: FBI, Supplementary Homicide Reports.
Sexual assault murder victims differ markedly from other murder victims. Compared to all murder victims, those who died as a consequence of a sexual assault were substantially more likely to be female and "White."
Note that Black men (6% of the population) are over-represented according to their race by a factor of more than eight (for all murders) and by a factor of more than six (for all murders involving sexual assault). If you'd rather compare by race alone, the factors are four-plus and three-plus, respectively.
RAPE VICTIM CHARACTERISTICS
WSW: The following is a breakdown of the characteristics of murder victims and sexually assaulted murder victims according to the FBI Supplementary Homicide Reports.
Rape |
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| Characteristic | All | Sexual Assault |
| Male | 76.4% | 18% |
| Female | 23.6% | 82.0% |
| "White" | 51.7% | 68.4% |
| Black | 46.3% | 28.9% |
| Other | 2.0% | 2.7% |
INTRA & INTER-RACIAL SEXUAL ASSAULTS
This next information was tucked away at the bottom of the report. Too bad, it's quite illuminating.
About 8 out of 10 sexual assault murders were interracial [within the race]. "White" victims and "White" offenders accounted for 55% of sexual assault murders, Black victims and Black offenders accounted for 24% of all murders involving sexual assault. [However,] 2% involved Black victims and "White" offenders, 15% involved "White" victims and Black offenders, and the remainder involved victims and offenders of other races. [Quotation marks around Whites added because DOJ includes most Hispanics as Whites.]
For Black on "White" compared to "White" on Black, there are 8 times more Blacks committing sexual assault murders on "Whites." Since "Whites" outnumber Blacks 8 to 1 in the American population, the per capita ration is 64 to 1.
Gee, I wonder who is responsible for both of these statistics? The blacks who commit the crimes and impregnate women and leave them? NAH! It MUST be SOCIETY'S fault!
No wonder so many young white kids are desperately drawn to urban culture. No responsibility, no fault, no condemnation, no judgment, automatic deferential treatment by government agencies, automatic advantages in employment/scholarships/social programs, automatic deferential treatment any time you cry "I'm offended!"... what hedonistic teenager wouldn't be drawn to a set-up like that?
We Republicans are trying to make the schools accountable to teach real information and skills to African-American children so they can access mainstream America's jobs and success.
And we Republicans are trying to instill a sense in the country that morality and parental responsibility do matter. But this part ultimately must come from African-American leaders that set examples.
If the Democrats continue to fight us on both of these fronts and African-Americans continue to throw in their lot with the Dems, then African-Americans will continue to be losers.
One guess as to how this came about:
liberal/Democrat/Socialist governmental welfare policies which penalized fathers for being part of the family structure.
The Democrats have terrorized families in America, by attacking men, encouraging women to raise children without fathers, encouraging free sex by free condom programs etc., encouraging deviant lifestyles as normal-- and no wonder these despicable policies have horribly affected not only the black community, but the poor white community (which is often ignored now-a-days).
And still the Democrats get people to vote for them. How? how do they hoodwink so many people?
Maybe they should be preaching more about family values and the importance of Mom and Dad to children .. the importance of teaching their children a good structured family environment .. the importance of working harder at education and building a career and life for themselves
But then .. doing that would put Al and Jesse our of business
I can't speak for the black community, but I know there are better leaders out there then those two fools, I just wish they would speak out more often and get more air time.
Yes, I agree and realize that the crime rate among blacks is high, but it shouldn't be.
What the heck can civil rights advocates do except tell black men to quit committing crimes?
Young black men commit a disproportionate number of the crimes.
Prison is the best place for them. At least while they're locked up they can not victimize the rest of us.
Yes, it is very expensive to keep them in prison. It would cost society more if they were loose on the streets.
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