Fewer Blacks in Prison for Drug Crimes

[Jelakins]

Report Says Fewer Blacks in Prison for Drug Crimes Reverses 25-Year-Old Trend

While Number of Black Prisoners Dropping, Meth Use May Be Sending More Whites to Prison


While Number of Black Prisoners Dropping, Meth Use May Be Sending More Whites to Prison

For the first time in a quarter century, the number of African-Americans incarcerated for drug offenses in state prisons has declined more than 20 percent while the number of white imprisoned drug offenders has increased more than 40 percent.


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A new report by The Sentencing Project says the number of blacks in prison for drug crimes has fallen while the number of whites in prison for drugs is on the rise.

The decline took place over a six year period from 1999 to 2005 and reflects fundamental changes in the so-called "war on drugs" -- how it's targeted and prosecuted -- as well as the waning of the crack epidemic in predominantly minority urban areas and the increase in methamphetamine abuse in largely white rural neighborhoods.

The trends were identified in an analysis of Justice Department statistics released Tuesday by The Sentencing Project, a criminal justice and reform nonprofit in Washington, D.C. The study found that an increase in the number of drug courts and state-level efforts to find alternatives to incarceration may have played a role in bringing about the change.

[LadySizzla]

Interesting....this could be best turned over to 1stCrim *cough* err....I mean Mrs. Uptight as she is an EXPERT in this area Dare you to access the church and post it! - just for fun