Prioritizing Education Over the Penal System
Some scholars argue that the United States needs to shift investments to break the cradle-to-prison pipeline for Black males.
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October 30th, 2007 at 8:15 pm
You are an intellectual coward who censors the FACTS, which proves beyond doubt that you are wrong and that you can’t deal with reality. I know you will censor this post but I also know that the FACTS will gnaw at your so-called “brain” for the rest of your pathetic life.
Black people (men, women, and children) make up ONLY about 12% of the USA, which logically makes “crime-age” black men ONLY about 6% of the US population, but somehow only 6% of the population commits over 50% of all murders, over 32% of all rapes, over 56% of all robberies, and over 34% of all aggravated assaults in the USA.
October 31st, 2007 at 1:12 pm
The main point of the article: By throwing more money at inner city youth we can somehow (insert desirable outcome here). We’ve seen this storyline so many times before, when do we determine that the ending is always the same? No matter what government programs we put in place, there is no way to compensate for failure in the home and a culture that glorifies criminal behavior. Let’s give this a try: Parents stop committing crimes, stay home with your kids, hold them accountable for their mistakes and help them with their homework. That’s the formula for success, not government sponsored nannies.
November 13th, 2007 at 7:13 pm
I read your article with great interest. I am a broadcast/print journalist and, more often than not, I am assigned to court cases - some of the high-profile, some of them not. The point is, working in the deep South, I am trooubled by what I see in the courtroom on a consistent basis in regard to minority defendants. A presumption of innocence is non-existent pertaining to any defendant, but to minority defendants in parrticular. It come as no suprise that the number of African Americans incarcerated in this country is increasing at an alarming rate. While Ms. Powell\’s statement, \
December 5th, 2007 at 3:28 pm
The article is powerful and right. However most of these problems come from the lack of our people not doing what our ancestor did to gain the respect that we have today. example: Here in New York two incidents come to mind the recent subway strike & Imus. These two incedents was the time for our people to gain respect, instead of supporting the transit workers whom r mostly black and not riding the train as blacks did for Rosa Park with the bus,it was blacks that came on the news complaining . With Imus, instead of picketing and not buying the products that indorse him. It was blacks that thought he was funny and got a raw deal. 2-day\’s blacks r the new whites as far as in ther minds, we use to march have sit-inns. Now we sit in our homes and take anything. N we are losing our children and the respect that our ancestor help us gain. Because of our none involement. Now what 2 do 2 get it back! By. Vox Populi
January 23rd, 2008 at 1:53 am
Thank you for the data.
This merely verifies what many African Americans know to be true.
The numbers don’t lie
February 9th, 2008 at 7:44 pm
It always amazes me, this thing about numbers. Yes, numbers can lie. Yes, there are many ways to look at numbers. But when a combination of qualitative and quantitative research tell the same stories–that people already imprisoned by their environments just end up in different kinds of prisons later and/or throughout their lives–doesn\’t that mean it\’s time to change the environments? All of them?