claim: only 15 percent of drug users are african-american, yet 74 percent of all drug offenders sentenced to prison are black
author: arianna huffington
evidence_1: professor cathy schnieder of international service at american university notes  that in 1989, african americans, representing 12-15 percent of all drug use in the  united states, made up 41 percent of all arrests. that is a noted increase from 38  percent in 1988. whites were 47 percent of those in state-funded treatment ...
evidence_2: jul 28, 2009 ... huffington said said that only 15 percent of drug users are african-american, yet  74 percent of all drug offenders sentenced to prison are black. one of those  numbers was off by quite a bit. still, she makes a valid point that black americans  are imprisoned for drug offenses at wildly disproportionate rates.
evidence_3: oct 26, 2006 ... the report includes recent data that indicates that african americans make up 15  percent of the country's drug users, yet they make up 37 percent of those arrested  for drug violations, 59 percent of those convicted, and 74 percent of those  sentenced to prison for a drug offense. more than 80 percent of the ...
evidence_4: the disproportionate rates at which black drug offenders are sent to prison  originate in racially disproportionate rates of arrest.72 contrary to public belief,  the ... whites (72 percent of all users) and 2.0 million blacks (15 percent) who  were current illicit drug users in 1998.81 there were almost five times as many  current white ...
evidence_5: jan 1, 2015 ... twenty years after the implementation of the anti-drug abuse acts of 1986 and  1988, studies show african americans comprised a startling 74 percent of those  incarcerated for drug offenses despite being only 15 percent of america's drug  users. despite overwhelming evidence that suggests african ...