CRJ 306 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Sentencing Project, Economic Inequality, Sentenced
8 Nov 2021
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Race and sentencing: in search of fairness and justice. Education, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men, the balance-wheel of the social machinery. Brown v. board of education of topeka. It was a landmark case/decision of the u. s. supreme court in which the. Court ruled that american state laws establishing racial segregation in public schools are unconstitutional. Fifty years after brown v. board of education. In 2003 there were nine times as many african americans in prison or jail as on the day the brown decision was handed down. The number increased from 98,000 to 884,000. 1:3 african americans males and 1:18 african american females can expect to be imprisoned in their lifetime. The most recent report conducted nationally by the u. s. department of justice states that of all incarcerated citizens, about 65% had not received a high school diploma.
