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| Drug war studies contend racial disparity |
| By Richmond Times-Disptach |
| Published: 05/07/2008 |
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VIRGINIA - Two studies contend that racially disparate effects of the war on drugs are more evident in Virginia and Virginia Beach than in most of the country. Human Rights Watch found that nationally in 2003, black adults were 10 times more likely per capita to be sent to prison for drug crimes than whites. In Virginia, the rate was 13.2 times more likely — eighth-highest among the 34 states studied. A report by The Sentencing Project on 43 of the nation’s largest cities found that from 1980 to 2003, the drug-arrest rate for blacks rose 729 percent while the white rate dropped 24 percent. The Sentencing Project said the likelihood of blacks being arrested on drug charges compared with whites in Virginia Beach increased during that period by a factor of more than 10 — the largest among the cities examined. Read more. If link has expired, check the website of the article's original news source. |
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