It’s a crime: How Private Prison Companies Encourage Mass Incarceration

CrocodileStunter

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According to the US Department of Justice, blacks accounted for 52.5% ofhomicide offenders from 1980 to 2008, with whites 45.3% and "Other" 2.2%. The offending rate for blacks was almost 8 times higher than whites, and the victim rate6 times higher.

Pretty crazy that the stats for black murderers and the stats for blacks incarcerated are nearly the same level. It's almost like blacks commit crimes at higher rates than anyone else in our country.
 

ttystikk

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Interesting. Now I have to wonder where little Kaitlyn is getting her fix from. Oh, that's right, she gets it from Tanner over behind the jungle gym. You see, I graduated from a predominantly white high school in a class of about 550 students and only about 37 of us were black (my grandfather actually counted). So I'm really not going for the whole "white people don't sell drugs" thing. Of course they do. The difference occurs when they get caught, it's usually just a slap on the wrist and a little family embarrassment. While the black kids get sent away. I've seen it happen to friends, both black and white. White friends went off to college. Black friends went off to jail. That's American justice in its full glory.
Straight sauce. If you don't like it, then fucking stand up for REAL justice.
 

whitebb2727

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People of color represent 60% of people in cages, yet less than 30% of the population (Black, Latino). One in eight black men in their twenties are locked up on any given day. 75% of people in state prison for drug conviction are people of color although blacks and whites see and use drugs at roughly the same rate. In NYS, 94% of those imprisoned for a drug offense are people of color.
Now I think I get it. If the black kids would just stop selling on the corner out in the open, and sell in the suburbs like the white kids, they too will basically get away with it when they do get caught? That is what you're saying, right?
In a way, yes.

It was a point I was going to make.

I think in either situation the sentence shouldn't be different. I'm referring to the numbers arrested.

The further you get from heavily populated areas the less police there are and the longer the response times.

I believe that's why more time is spent patrolling heavily populated poor areas. Crime is higher due to being poor not color. The pickings are easier. More convictions so the prosecutor looks better.
 
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bearkat42

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no, i just ignore other people's fiction. go be a victim on your own time.
Oh wow, now I'm just making racism up. That's actually a first. Most will say that It's not as bad as I claim, but this is honestly the first time that I've been accused of actually making it up. That's fascinating.
 

bearkat42

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Like I said, yes I'm sure there is some racism.

Poor white people tend to be in sparsely po

In a way, yes.

It was a point I was going to make.

I think in either situation the sentence shouldn't be different. I'm referring to the numbers arrested.

The further you get from heavily populated areas the less police there are and the longer the response times.

I believe that's why more time is spent patrolling heavily populated poor areas. Crime is higher due to being poor not color. The pickings are easier. More convictions so the prosecutor looks better.
I actually agree with a lot of this. Where we differ is with your classification of "some racism". It's absolutely everywhere. It's not happening to you, so you can play like it's really not that bad. I can't. I've gotta raise kids in this shit.
 

CrocodileStunter

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Where's chicago at for the month like 70 black people killed by black people? But it's the "system" that is holding back your race.
 

whitebb2727

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I actually agree with a lot of this. Where we differ is with your classification of "some racism". It's absolutely everywhere. It's not happening to you, so you can play like it's really not that bad. I can't. I've gotta raise kids in this shit.
I thought I deleted the first part of my post.


" Some racism' was a partial post.
 

CrocodileStunter

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Does this mean that the police should be allowed to kill black people as well?
Nobody said that. Blacks kill so many of their own it's not even news worthy anymore. It's what is expected that's why nobody bats an eye when it happens because some how ya'll have raised a huge amount of psychopaths. "But teh police"
 
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