Title: Report to the United Nations on Racial Disparities in the U.S. Criminal Justice System | The Sentencing Project
Headings: Report to the United Nations on Racial Disparities in the U.S. Criminal Justice System
Report to the United Nations on Racial Disparities in the U.S. Criminal Justice System
Racial Disparity in the United States Criminal Justice System
A. Policing
B. Pretrial
C. Sentencing
D. Parole
E. Post Prison/Collateral Consequences
Recommendations to the UN Special Rapporteur
End the War on Drugs.
Eliminate mandatory minimum sentences.
Reduce the Use of Cash Bail.
Fully fund indigent defense agencies.
Adopt a policy requiring the use of racial impact statements.
Develop and implement training to reduce racial bias.
Address Collateral Consequences.
Conclusion

Content: and once convicted, and they are more likely to experience lengthy prison sentences. African-American adults are 5.9 times as likely to be incarcerated than whites and Hispanics are 3.1 times as likely. 4)
U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics, Prisoners in 2016, 8 tbl.6 (Jan. 2018). As of 2001, one of every three black boys born in that year could expect to go to prison in his lifetime, as could one of every six Latinos—compared to one of every seventeen white boys. 5)
Marc Mauer, Addressing Racial Disparities in Incarceration, 91 supp. 3 The Prison Journal 87S, 88S (Sept. 2011). Racial and ethnic disparities among women are less substantial than among men but remain prevalent. 6)
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The source of such disparities is deeper and more systemic than explicit racial discrimination. The United States in effect operates two distinct criminal justice systems: one for wealthy people and another for poor people and people of color.