A black person is four times as likely as a white person to be incarcerated for the exact same crime.
Pete Buttigieg
2019
Report to the United Nations on Racial Disparities in the U.S. Criminal Justice System.
2018
In viral moment, Pete Buttigieg fumbles line on racial disparities in criminal justice.
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Pete Buttigieg shuts down racist suggestion to reduce racial tensions in South Bend.
Black men sentenced to more time for committing the same crime. "Incarceration rate for blacks is over five times higher
2017
Report: black men get longer sentences for the same federal crime as white men.
Black men get longer prison sentences than white men for the same crime: study.
Demographic differences in sentencing. An update to the 2012 Booker report.
2017,2010,2006
Black male offenders received longer sentences than similarly situated white male offenders (on average 19.1 percent longer)
Bias on the bench | Sentencing Florida's Broken Sentencing System.
2016
Unequal Sentences for Blacks and Whites.
Comparing Black and White Drug offenders: Implications for Racial Disparities in Criminal Justice and Reentry Policy and Programming. "Blacks were incarcerated at a dramatically higher rate than whites (5-7 times).
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Criminal justice sheet Racial disparities in incarceration "African Americans are incarcerated at more than 5 times the rate of whites.
The Color of Justice: Racial and Ethnic Disparity in State Prisons.
African Americans don't use drugs as at a higher level than whites, but wind up going to prison six times more.
Van Jones
Van Jones claim on drugs use, imprisonment rates for blacks, whites is mostly true.
African- Americans are more likely to be arrested by police and sentenced to longer prison terms for doing the same things that whites do.
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton says blacks more likely to be arrested , get longer sentences.
Black lives matter: eliminating racial inequality in the criminal justice system.
2015
Criminal justice facts "Black men are six times as likely to be incarcerated as white men.
White people are more likely to deal with drugs, but black people are more likely to get arrested for it.
2014
Racial gap in U.S. arrest rates: staggering disparity.
Racial disparities in sentencing.
The Growth of Incarceration in the United States.
Racial Disparity in Federal Law
Race and Drugs.
2013
The war on Marijuana in black and white.
Mandatory Sentencing and Racial Disparity, Assessing the Role of Prosecuters and the Effects of Booker.
Black males were imprisoned at more than 9 times the rate of white males.
2012,2011
Contacts between police and public, 2008.
2011