Sunday, June 19, 2016

Black Americans Incarcerated Five Times More Than White People

http://ift.tt/1ScSJ7b

Source:

“You can’t work in the justice system and not know just by looking that there are racial disparities in the system,” said Baz Dreisinger, the creator of the Prison-to-College Pipeline program which prepares New York inmates in state prison for higher education. “Every year we maybe have one white student in our class,” Dreisinger said. “Obviously race is not remotely an admissions factor for us, but it’s just the reality of what it is.”

Brought to you by SocialPsychology Network



No comments:

Post a Comment