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• Reducing Racial Disparity

  The Sentencing Project today announced publication of a new edition of Reducing Racial Disparity in the Criminal Justice System : A Manual for Practitioners and Policymakers. Per the Sentencing Project's announcement, "The publication provides... Posted Sep 30 2008, 11:44 AM by Eileen Conway with | with no comments Filed under: Racial disparities

• Focusing on Racial Disparities

  Human Rights Watch has posted a press release announcing two new racial disparity studies, one of their own, and one by the Sentencing Project. The release links to the HRW report, "Targeting Blacks: Drug Law Enforcement and Race in the United States... Posted May 06 2008, 10:42 AM by Eileen Conway with | with no comments Filed under: Racial disparities

• U.S.Sentencing Commission Revisits Crack Cocaine Sentencing

  The U.S. Sentencing Commission , which sets guidelines for federal prison sentences, voted unanimously "to allow some 19,500 federal prison inmates, most of them black, to seek reductions in their crack cocaine sentences." Eligible inmates would... Posted Dec 12 2007, 10:50 AM by CC Pro with | with no comments Filed under: Legal issues, Sentencing, Racial disparities, U.S. Sentencing Commission

• Incarceration Rates by Race and Ethnicity

  In another new release today, the Sentencing Project uses data from the Bureau of Justice Statistics to chart state-by-state rates of prison and jail incarceration by race and ethnicity, drawing conclusions regarding diverse racial disparities. Posted Jul 18 2007, 02:19 PM by Eileen Conway with | with no comments Filed under: Statistics, Racial disparities