Report: black men get longer sentences for the same federal crime as white men
by German Lopez at Vox
https://www.vox.com/identities/2017/11/17/16668770/us-sentencing-commission-race-booker
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If you’re convicted of a federal offense, on average you will serve more time — for the exact same crime — if you’re black than if you’re white.
That’s the conclusion of a new report by the US Sentencing Commission, which found that black men got 19.1 percent longer sentences for the same federal crimes as white men between fiscal years 2012 and 2016. This was after accounting for several variables, including criminal history, whether someone pleaded guilty, age, education, and citizenship. A separate analysis that controlled for a history of violence — but only for fiscal year 2016, due to a lack of data for other years — produced similar results.
Based on the commission’s report, this disparity has grown over time.
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So what’s going on here? Racial bias could very well be an answer.
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