Incarceration rate=bias?

A new report from the excellent Sentencing Project offers more evidence of a probable institutional bias against African American and Hispanic citizens in terms of sentencing policies and public defense. Conservatives will argue that higher rates of criminal conduct is to blame for these by now well-documented racial disparities in incarceration but adequate defense, how people are charged, and how they are treated at sentencing make their own contribution to these high rates of jail time and longer periods of incarceration that are having a terrible impact on specific U.S. communities.

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