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A 4 page overview of the problems encountered by minorities that are released from incarceration. The author provides statistics on the number of individuals in incarceration verses the number that are released onto the streets. Those that are minorities often have problems finding housing and jobs and, in general, encounter considerable difficulty in staying out of prison. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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million offenders are incarcerated around the country (Whitford, 2004). Another 15 million are arrested every year (Whitford, 2004)! Most of these offenders will eventually be released back onto
the streets. Indeed, even today 47.7 million are serving out parole terms or probation (Whitford, 2004). Given the predominance of non-whites in the criminal justice system, it can
be safely assumed that a significant number of those inmates that are released from incarceration will be minorities. The Human Rights Watch (2000) reports, for example, that although blacks
represent only thirteen percent of our national population they represent some thirty percent of those arrested and forty-one percent of people in jail and forty-nine percent of those in prison.
Furthermore: "Nine percent of all black adults are under some form of correctional supervision
(in jail or prison, on probation or parole), compared to two percent of white adults. One in three black men between the ages of 20 and 29 was either in
jail or prison, or on parole or probation in 1995. One in ten black men in their twenties and early thirties is in prison or jail" (The Human Rights
Watch, 2000). Other minorities comprise a significant percentage of those that are incarcerated and ultimately
released as well. When these minorities are finally released from incarceration, however, their troubles are far from over. When they are released back on the streets they are
likely to encounter the same societal bias which some contend resulted in their disproportionate representation in the criminal justice system in the first place! This contention demands the clarification,
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