Black Men Get Harsher Prison Sentences
November 28, 2017
11/25/17 – Black men are sentenced to far more time in prison than white men for committing similar crimes, says a new report from an independent agency of the US judicial branch, and racial disparities in sentencing appear to have increased over the past two decades. The findings seemingly align with observations that people of color are overrepresented in US prisons and jails, as a sociologist and a former judge recently explained in Issues, and that mass incarceration disproportionally hurts communities of color in a variety of ways.