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I agree with 'you do the crime, you do the time'; but I feel EQUAL justice for all and I see BIG BUSINESS in come instances within the prison system. It costs society more than what is just the obvious.

Respectfully
F_T_D

[Blueflag]

"statistics" like the following should give one pause -- to understnad their veracity and to explore the 'why?' behind the stats.

At face value they imply a systemic bias. I'd like to understand the truth.

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"Research shows that black men are more likely to be imprisoned for minor offenses, while white men are more likely to be given probation for the same crimes.

Cynthia Tucker inflammatory hyperbole follows --

This impulse to imprison black men now stretches to include the man-child. Frightened by a few highly publicized juvenile crimes, politicians began imposing harsher sanctions on juvenile offenders in the early 1990s. Predictably, the lash has fallen more frequently on black and brown boys than white.

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Like to know the 'why' behind this as well.

Among young people who have never been to a juvenile prison, blacks are more than six times as likely as whites to be sentenced by juvenile courts to prison time, according to a 2000 report, "And Justice for Some," issued by the Justice Department and several foundations. For those charged with drug offenses, black youths are 48 times more likely than whites to be sentenced to juvenile prisons, the report said. "