Wednesday, October 3, 2007

Let's check those jail vs. college figures for black males one more time. OOPS!

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Anonymous said...

yeah, they didn't say it right. they could have made the point by simply stating the facts--

Everybody acknowledges that incarceration rates among young black males are much higher than among whites or Hispanics. An August 2003 Bureau of Justice Statistics analysis shows that 32 percent of black males born in 2001 can expect to spend time in prison over the course of their lifetime. That is up from 13.4 percent in 1974 and 29.4 percent in 1991. By contrast, 17.2 percent of Hispanics and 5.9 percent of whites born in 2001 are likely to end up in prison.

http://blog.washingtonpost.com/
fact-checker/

October 3, 2007 at 12:48 PM

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