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| Experts debate Proposition 36’s three-strikes reform |
| By www.newsreview.com - Raheem F. Hosseini |
| Published: 10/04/2012 |
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Anyone who thinks that the blindfold across Lady Justice’s stone-cold expression spares her from racial bias is smoking the wrong spreadsheet. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the demographic breakdown of California inmates sent away on 25-years-to-life third-strike convictions. According to the most recent data from the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, 45.5 percent of the state’s 8,813 three-strikers were black. With another 2,262 inmates listed as Hispanic, that makes the state’s three-strikes prison population 71.2 percent brown as of September 2011. Here in Sacramento County, the racial disparity for blacks is even greater, according to the same CDCR report. The county’s share of the three-strikes population numbered 565, an alarming 55 percent of the 889 total interred on third-strike convictions. The remainder of this group consisted of 158 white inmates, 81 Hispanic and 15 who were classified as “other.” Read More. |
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