Racism in the Criminal Justice System (beta)

According to the The Sentencing Project , Black adults are 5.9 times as likely to be incarcerated than white adults, and Latinx adults are 3.1 times as likely. As of 2001, one in three Black boys born in that year, and one of every six Latinx boys, could expect to go to prison in their lifetime, compared to one in seventeen white boys. Black and Latinx communities face deep structural inequities in treatment across every stage of the criminal justice process, from arrest, to trial, to...