Slide 2:
African-Americans represent:
12.7% of the US population
15% of US drug users
(72% of all users are white)
36.8% of those arrested for a
drug abuse violation
*Although black people account for roughly only 12 percent of the U.S. population, an estimated 44 percent of all prisoners in the United States are black.
*Black men nationally are admitted to state prisons on drug charges at a rate about 13 times that of white men.
Slide 3:
Latinos represent:
11.1% of the US population
10% of US drug users
(72% of all users are non-Hispanic
whites)
*approximately 22.5% of Latinos are sentenced to state prisoners
Native Americans :
Native Americans Native-Americans represent less than
1% of the US population.
Over 4% of Native-Americans are under
correctional supervision (compared to
2% of whites.)
Harvard Professor Charles Ogletree - The Presumption of Guilt :
Harvard Professor Charles Ogletree - The Presumption of Guilt