Published on: Monday, February 21, 2022
According to data from the U.S. Sentencing Commission, Black men statistically received harsher prison sentences than white men who commit the same crimes, receiving sentences 20.4 percent longer than white males (article available here).
The Sentencing Project found Black Americans are incarcerated in state prisons across the country at nearly five times the rate of whites, and Latinx people are 1.3 times as likely to be incarcerated than non-Latinx whites.