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Hey Martin, Happy Birthday! From the White House And The Big House

By Brian Tannebaum, Esq.

There was a heightened buzz about the prison population when the stats came out that over 2 million people were in American prisons.Then I think American Idol came on a few hours later, and led us into the evening news of lottery numbers and tomorrow's weather. I think there was a small warehouse fire that night as well that made the top stories.So anyway, about 10.4% of the entire African-American male population in the United States aged 25 to 29 is incarcerated. Hispanic men make up 2.4% and 1.2%, white men. According to a report by the Justice Policy Institute in 2002, the number of black men in prison has grown to five times the rate it was twenty years ago. Today, more African-American men are in jail than in college. In 2000 there were 791,600 black men in prison and 603,032 enrolled in college...continue to full post

Full post as published by Criminal Defense on January 19, 2009 (boomark / email).