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<blockquote data-quote="rickyb" data-source="post: 3360014" data-attributes="member: 56035"><p>[MEDIA=npr]i=145175694;m=145175817[/MEDIA]</p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><strong>Interview Highlights</strong></span></p><p><strong>On the number of blacks in the criminal justice system</strong></p><p></p><p>"Today there are more African-Americans under correctional control — in prison or jail, on probation or parole — than were enslaved in 1850, a decade before the Civil War began. There are millions of African-Americans now cycling in and out of prisons and jails or under correctional control. In major American cities today, <strong>more than half of working-age African-American men are either under correctional control or branded felons</strong> and are thus subject to legalized discrimination for the rest of their lives."</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="rickyb, post: 3360014, member: 56035"] [MEDIA=npr]i=145175694;m=145175817[/MEDIA] [SIZE=4][B]Interview Highlights[/B][/SIZE] [B]On the number of blacks in the criminal justice system[/B] "Today there are more African-Americans under correctional control — in prison or jail, on probation or parole — than were enslaved in 1850, a decade before the Civil War began. There are millions of African-Americans now cycling in and out of prisons and jails or under correctional control. In major American cities today, [B]more than half of working-age African-American men are either under correctional control or branded felons[/B] and are thus subject to legalized discrimination for the rest of their lives." [/QUOTE]
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