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New data on racial disparity in Nevada sentencing

By Douglas A. Berman

I bet regular readers will not be surprised to read reports here on here on the results of a new study about sentencing in Nevada.  Here are some details from the Las Vegas Sun:Blacks get more prison time than whites, and women receive lighter sentences than men, according to a university study of the state?s court system released Tuesday.  The Grant Sawyer Center for Justice Studies at the University of Nevada, Reno, which examined 10,000 felony convictions in Nevada in 2007, found blacks received ?significantly higher? minimum and maximum sentences than white defendants. The study also found that blacks got significantly higher minimum and maximum sentences for drug trafficking than white or Asian defendants, as well as significantly higher minimum and maximum sentences for drunken driving...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on August 13, 2008 (boomark / email).