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Biased system packs prisons with young black men

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Biased system packs prisons with young black men 3/6/2008 Rochester MN Post Bulletin By Les Payne Legal scholars pondering reports that one of every 100 U.S. adults is in jail or prison need look no further than Roger Clemens to see why it is blacks who mainly choke the jails. Men such as Clemens -- unlike their counterparts such as, say, Barry Bonds -- enjoy a white privilege conveying a sense of immunity from prosecution, or even suspicion. Clemens' raised right hand seemed steady while he swore before a House committee that he'd never, ever used steroids or human growth hormone. His self-righteous duplicity, however, was too much even for the U.S. Congress. Defending what passes for its honor, the committee has called in the Justice Department to sort through the baseball star's inconsistencies...continue to full post

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