The way the war on drugs has been pursued is one of the biggest reasons for the growing racial disparities in criminal justice over all.
- Ryan S. King, a policy analyst with The Sentencing Project, which recently released a report describing large disparities in the rate at which blacks and whites are arrested and imprisoned for drug offenses, even though the two groups use illegal drugs at roughly equal rates.
Tuesday, May 13, 2008
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