Why Do Black People Stay In Prison

1. African-Americans comprise only 13% of the U.S. population and 14% of the monthly drug users, but are 37% of the people arrested for drug-related offenses in America.
2. Studies show that police are more likely to pull over blacks or Latinos than whites. After being arrested, African-Americans are 33% more likely than whites to be detained while facing a felony trial in New York.
3. In 2010, the U.S. Sentencing Commission reported that African Americans receive 10% longer sentences than whites through the federal system for the same crimes.
4. In 2009 African-Americans are 21% more likely than whites to receive mandatory minimum sentences and 20% more likely to be sentenced to prison than white drug defendants.
5. If a black person kills a white person, they are twice as likely to receive the death sentence as a white person who kills a black person. Local prosecutors are much more likely to upgrade a case to felony murder if you’re black than if you’re white.
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Black people stay in prison longer than white people i.e. up to 20% than white people serving time for essentially similar crimes. They get much harsher sentences i.e. black people are 38% more likely to be sentenced to death than white people for the same crimes.
7. The color of the skin of the victims matters greatly in the punishment for capital crimes. Whites and blacks represent about half of murder victims from year to year, but 77% of people who are executed killed a white person, while only 13% of death row executions represent those who killed a black