The statistic by itself might not signal it, but this is definitely part of what's going on, and I don't think anyone seriously questions this. A good place to

The statistic by itself might not signal it, but this is definitely part of what's going on, and I don't think anyone seriously questions this. A good place to start is the Fair Sentencing Act which tried to address the problem https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_Sentencing_Act https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_Sentencing_Act (but, this just address the mandatory minimum triggers, not the fact that African Americans are disproportionately jailed)