Food For Thought: Incarceration of Urban Black Men

Just wanted to give you a snippet from the Crim Law reading that I'm finally doing at 6am before class:

• In Washington DC, 42% of black men between 18 and 35 at any given moment are incarcerated (ie: in jail), on probation or parole, or released on a bond posted while criminal charges are pending. In Baltimore the number is 56%!
  

• Nationwide, innercity black males face nearly a 90% lifetime risk of being arrested and incarcerated.

You can read the short article from which my textbook got this info, Jerome Miller's "Hobbling a Generation," by clicking here.

Maybe THIS should be part of Congress's 100 hour push.

VC