This article points out the inequities in sentencing for crimes involving drugs. Some statistics cited in the article are that African Americans make up only 15% of the drug users, they account for 37% of those arrested on drug charges, 54% of those convicted and 74% of all drug offenders sentenced to prison. 70% of the people in state prisons on nonviolent drug charges are black or Latino. An interesting statistic is that 1.4 million African American men, 13% of the total black male population, were unable to vote in the 2000 election because of state laws prohibiting felons from voting. These facts show that minorities are at a disadvantage.
Huffington, Arianna, “The War on Drugs Is Really a War on Minorities”, Los Angeles Times,
March 27, 2007
http://www.alternet.org/rights/49782 [40]
Pst by Alexandra Chunn
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