{"id":1699,"date":"2011-07-28T08:59:35","date_gmt":"2011-07-28T12:59:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/07\/disparity-in-criminal-justice.html"},"modified":"2011-07-28T08:59:35","modified_gmt":"2011-07-28T12:59:35","slug":"disparity-in-criminal-justice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/07\/disparity-in-criminal-justice.html","title":{"rendered":"Disparity in Criminal Justice"},"content":{"rendered":"Is a private prison &#8220;good clean industry&#8221; as a local leader once told me?\n<blockquote>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Incarceration_in_the_United_States\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none;\"   src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/d\/d7\/U.S._incarceration_rate_by_race_2.gif\/300px-U.S._incarceration_rate_by_race_2.gif\"><\/a>\nAccording to the CRF [Constitutional Rights Foundation], over 25 percent\nof black males and 16 percent of Hispanic males spend time in prison,\nwhile only 4 percent of white males do so. Blacks make up only 12 percent\nof the United States population.\n<\/blockquote>\nWhy?\n\n<!--more-->\n<blockquote>\nNationwide in the United States, according to the Constitutional Rights Foundation (CRF), racial disparity begins with arrest policies and continues through sentencing and parole (see Resources).\n<\/blockquote>\n&mdash;Shelley Moore, eHow,\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ehow.com\/facts_4855867_definition-disparity-criminal-justice.html\">\nDefinition of Disparity in Criminal Justice<\/a>\n<p>\nRemember, in Georgia,\n<a href=\"\/blog\/2011\/07\/1-in-13-georgia-adults-in-the-prison-system-pew-center-on-the-states.html\">\n1 in 13 adults<\/a> are in jail, prison, probation, or parole.\n<p>\nWe don&#8217;t need a private prison in Lowndes County, Georgia.\nSpend that tax money on rehabilitation and education.\n<p>\n-jsq\n<p>\nPS: Owed to Gwendolyn Glover\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Is a private prison &#8220;good clean industry&#8221; as a local leader once told me? According to the CRF [Constitutional Rights Foundation], over 25 percent of black males and 16 percent of Hispanic males spend time in prison, while only 4 percent of white males do so. Blacks make up only 12 percent of the United [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[97,1113,72,20,21,178],"tags":[4016,8817,4023,4026,8701,4025,727,1899,7,2490,75,1297,2489,4024,8749,4017],"class_list":["post-1699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activism","category-cca","category-incarceration","category-law","category-planning","category-vlcia","tag-black","tag-cca","tag-discrimination","tag-disparity","tag-georgia","tag-hispanic","tag-jail","tag-jim-crow","tag-lowndes-county","tag-parole","tag-prison","tag-private-prison","tag-probation","tag-segregation","tag-vlcia","tag-white"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p585fK-rp","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1699\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}