It exposes the fact that African-American defendants get more time behind bars sometimes twice the prison terms of whites with identical criminal histories when they commit the same crimes under identical circumstances. It also shows how bias on the part of individual judges and prosecutors drives sentencing inequity.
If youre convicted of a federal offense, on average you will serve more time for the exact same crime if youre black than if youre white.
Thats 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.
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