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Black people serve 60% longer sentences than whites who commit the same crime

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leftcollection:

“A new study by M. Marit Rehavi of the University of British Columbia and Sonja B. Starr of the University of Michigan Law School shows that Black Americans receive almost 60% long prison sentences than white Americans who committed the same crime.

The study covered 58,000 federal criminal cases and found that there was a significant difference between the sentences given to Black people to those given to white people.”

I think this is an excellent study to shove in people’s faces when they stubbornly believe the disproportionate amount of POC in prisons is down to them being inherently more criminal and not down to a racist justice system in a racist society. 

(Source: warofpositionist, via genderbitch)