If you’re busted for drugs and you’re black, guess what — surprise, surprise — you’re more likely to go to prison than if you’re busted and white. That’s the latest findings from the Justice Policy Institute. As Madison, Wisconsin’s Capital Times puts it, 97 black drug offenders are imprisoned for each white one.
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gonepublic by Noëlle McAfee 
One response to “Busted and Black”
Shocked, shocked I am that this should be happening. In the 1990s, physicians in Florida were reporting their drug-using patients ot the police (we can discuss the ethics of that some other time) and it seems that black drug abusers were 10 times as likely to get busted as whites. In the light of your new stats, the Florida docs look positively kindly.