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| Spike seen in Hispanics going to federal prisons |
| By PATRICK McGEE - star-telegram |
| Published: 02/20/2009 |
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FORT WORTH — Efrain Chavez-Castillo shuffled before a federal judge Wednesday morning, each step clinking and held short by leg irons. He wore an orange prisoner’s uniform. A translator leaned in close to tell him what was being said. Federal agents waited off to the side of the courtroom to take him back to a holding cell. The 51-year-old Mexican man was being arraigned for illegal re-entry into the United States after deportation. Federal courts have seen a huge increase in cases like this, and many more Hispanics are ending up in prison because of it, according to a new study by the Pew Hispanic Center. Forty percent of all federal offenders sentenced in 2007 were Hispanic, according to the study from the Washington, D.C.-based organization. That figure was only 24 percent in 1991. Of the Hispanics sentenced, nearly three-quarters were not U.S. citizens and nearly half were convicted of immigration offenses. Three-fourths of Hispanic immigration offenders were sentenced for illegal entry or for being in the U.S. illegally. Read more. If link has expired, check the website of the article's original news source. |
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