Title: White Men Vs. Black Men Prison Statistics 2016: Why Are More African American Males Incarcerated?
Headings: White Men Vs. Black Men Prison Statistics 2016: Why Are More African American Males Incarcerated?
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White Men Vs. Black Men Prison Statistics 2016: Why Are More African American Males Incarcerated?
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Content: Before stop-and-frisk tactics were deemed unconstitutional in New York City by a Supreme Court judge in 2013, 54 percent of the 191,588 New Yorkers stopped-and-frisked by police that year were black while only 11 percent of searches involved white people. Racism and how others view blacks may also play a role in a jury's verdict and a judge's sentencing. Duane Buck, a black inmate currently appealing his death row sentence in Texas, believes racism may have played a factor in his initial trial after a psychologist testified and perpetuated that he would be more likely to kill again because he was black. During his trial, former prison psychologist Walter Quijano suggested that being black or a minority “increases the future dangerousness” of a person "for various reasons," which Buck believes inevitably led the jury to convict him to death. The inmate, who has been appealing his death sentence for the past 14 years, will get his appeal heard before the Supreme Court on Wednesday. Although prison populations are on the decline, more than 1.5 million people were prisoners in state and federal correctional institutions in 2014, according to a report by the Bureau of Justice Statistic. Loading...
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