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> That's how it is in practice. Everyone's equal under the law. Specifically on these issues, all groups are equal (meaning all races, ethnicities, etc.) If th
by guerrilla 5y ago
> That's how it is in practice. Everyone's equal under the law. Specifically on these issues, all groups are equal (meaning all races, ethnicities, etc.)
If this were true in the US, for example, then the following would not be true:
> Black men and women are imprisoned at higher rates compared to all other age groups, with the highest rate being Black men aged 25 to 39. In 2001, almost 17% of Black men had previously been imprisoned in comparison to 2.6% of White men. By the end of 2002, of the two million inmates of the U.S. incarceration system, Black men surpassed the number of White men (586,700 to 436,800 respectively of inmates with sentences more than one year). In the same year, there were also more Black women behind bars than White women (36,000 to 35,400). African-Americans are about eight times more likely to be imprisoned than Whites. The Sentencing Project, a Washington, D.C.-based non-profit organization, released in 1990 that almost one in four Black men in the U.S. between the ages of 20 and 29 were under some degree of control by the criminal justice system. In 1995, the organization announced that the rate had increased to one in three.
1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_incarceration_rate#Disproportional_incarceration_of_black_people https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_incarceration_ra...
- tomp 5y agoWikipedia has become such a cesspool of fake data that I find this hard to believe. > Black men and women are imprisoned at higher rates compared to all other age groups According to [1], the rate for white men is far above the rate for black women. So this is probably a lie. Also since when are black, men and/or women "age groups"?! If you can't tell race and sex from age, how can I trust your statistics? [1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/252871/imprisonment-rate-of-sentenced-prisoners-in-the-us-by-sex-and-ethnicity/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/252871/imprisonment-rate...
- guerrilla 5y agoYour data [1] shows that the number of black males imprisoned per 100,000 residents is 2,203 and it shows that the number of white males imprisoned per 100,000 residents is 385. The former is greater than the latter, in accordance with the quote. For more data, we can also look at just the Federal Bureau of Prisons [2] and we see that 38.2% of inmates are black while 57.8% of inmates are white despite the fact that only 16.1% of the US population is black while 75.7% of the US population is white. As far as your comment on age groups, you're just going to have to re-read it until you understand what it's saying. 1. https://www.statista.com/statistics/252871/imprisonment-rate-of-sentenced-prisoners-in-the-us-by-sex-and-ethnicity/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/252871/imprisonment-rate... 2. https://www.bop.gov/about/statistics/statistics_inmate_race.jsp https://www.bop.gov/about/statistics/statistics_inmate_race....
- username90 5y agoYou are arguing a different point, the post said that black men and black women are the most imprisoned groups. Black men are more imprisoned than white men, yes, but white men are more imprisoned than black women. Womens issues and black issues are completely different, don't just mix them up randomly like this.
- guerrilla 5y ago> Black men and women are imprisoned at higher rates compared to all other age groups Aha, then they're just misreading that sentence then. It obviously means black men and black women as a whole are imprisoned at higher rates.
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