http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070718/ap_on_re_us/prisons_racial_disparity

The statistics don't lie but Professor Asswipe does; and how's your
trailer you racist bigot?


DES MOINES, Iowa - Blacks in the United States are imprisoned at more
than five times the rate of whites, and Hispanics are locked up at
nearly double the white rate, according to a study released Wednesday
by a criminal justice policy group.

The report by the Sentencing Project, a Washington-based think tank,
found that states in the Midwest and Northeast have the greatest
black-to-white disparity in incarceration. Iowa had the widest
disparity in the nation, imprisoning blacks at more than 13 times the
rate of whites.

Such figures "reflect a failure of social and economic interventions
to address crime effectively," as well as racial bias in the justice
system, said Marc Mauer, the group's executive director.

Vermont, New Jersey, Connecticut and Wisconsin incarcerated blacks at
more than 10 times the rate of whites, the group said, citing Justice
Department statistics from 2005. Vermont had a ratio of 12.5, followed
by New Jersey with 12.4 and Connecticut with 12.

States with the lowest black-to-white ratio were Hawaii, with 1.9,
Ge****a with 3.3 and Mississippi with 3.5.

In Iowa, blacks are imprisoned at a rate more than double the national
average. For every 100,000 people, Iowa incarcerates 309 whites and
4,200 blacks, the study said.

Paul Stageberg, administrator of the Iowa Division of Criminal and
Juvenile Justice Planning, said the results are not surprising, but
the causes are subject to interpretation.

He said the state's disproportionately high black arrest rates are
likely linked to high poverty rates among blacks and lower educational
achievement.

In 2001, a governor's task force released a report that said 24
percent of Iowa prison beds were occupied by black inmates even though
blacks comprised just over 2 percent of the state's population.

The group that compiled Wednesday's report made several
recommendations such as reviewing federal drug laws and giving judges
more discretion to decide sentences rather than imposing mandatory
minimum prison terms.

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On the Net:

The Sentencing Project: http://www.sentencingproject.org

Iowa Division of Criminal and Juvenile Justice Planning:
http://www.state.ia.us/government/dhr/cjjp

professor

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Your post does not support the statement that blacks commit most of the
crimes in America, because statistically they don't. Go off to your Klan
rally or whatever it is that you do.

What is your problem, the reading or the comprehension? I'm not here
to convince you of anything, but more interested in your act of
denial. I find people like you, who are quick to call others racists,
are racist themselves. So for your own mental health, you need to
stop dealing in stereotypes.