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A 4 page research paper on inequities in the American criminal justice system. The writer discusses the disproportionate number of African Americans incarcerated, DNA testing exonerating death row inmates, and other factors. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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The allegorical meaning of this statuary is that justice is "blind," i.e., socially distributive and with equitable procedural due process for all defendants who stand before the law. However, this
is not the case if here are disparities and inequalities, such as social class and level of education, that affect whether a person is found guilty or innocent. If this
is the case, then justice fails. An examination of American jurisprudence suggests that this assessment applies. First of all, the prison population of the US is extensive. Statistics show
that, as of 2004, 1 out of every 138 Americans has been incarcerated at some point (Golembeski and Fullilove, 2005). At the present, 6.9 million people are incarcerated or on
probation or parole, which is an increase of more than 275 percent since 1980 (Golembeski and Fullilove, 2005). Roughly 50 percent of the prison population are African Americans, while blacks
represent only fraction of the overall population (Golembeski and Fullilove, 2005). Hispanic inmates also makeup a sizeable percentage of the overall prison population. Experts feel that the "mass incarceration of
people of color represents...an important shift in the nations struggles with the question of race and poverty" (Golembeski and Fullilove, 2005). In addition to ethnic origin, there is a strong
correlation between class and incarceration, as roughly 80 percent of those inmates incarcerated in 2002 could not afford an attorney (Golembeski and Fullilove, 2005). According to The Coalition
for Juvenile Justice, studies have shown that the disproportionate trend of arresting and confining African American males in large numbers began in the early 1960s (Drakeford and Staples, 2006). By
the 1970s, disproportionate minority confinement was an evident and disturbing issue. In 1999, minority youth constituted 65 percent of juveniles held public facilities and 55 percent held in private institutions,
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