U.S. Prisons Thriving on Jim Crow Marijuana Arrests

“Let’s look at New York City, regarded by many tourists as the hippest city in America, and Chicago, which gave us the first black president:  ‘Since 1997, New York City alone has arrested and jailed more than 600,000 people for possessing marijuana; about 87 percent of the arrests are of blacks and Latinos.  For years, police in New York and Chicago have arrested more young blacks and Latinos for simple marijuana possession than for any other criminal offense whatsoever.’ If you are black or Latino and have gone to any of the relatively few schools that actually teach American history, do you feel that you still live in an America with a Constitution that’s fair to you?”

http://www.cato.org/publications/commentary/us-prisons-thriving-jim-crow-marijuana-arrests

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