What race makes up the biggest portion of the US prison population and why?
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Egao No Genki
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I can not tell you why, but according to a published report, here are the ratio of races incarcerated... this report is by the Department of Justice, and can be found here: http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/pub/ascii/pjim04.txt At midyear 2004 nearly 6 in 10 persons in local jails were racial or ethnic minorities. Whites made up 44.4% of the jail population; blacks, 38.6%; Hispanics, 15.2%; and other races (Asians, American Indians, Alaska Natives, Native Hawaiians, and other Pacific Islanders), 1.8%.
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Black people are the majority in US prisons, but that will soon change to hispanics. Minorities fill the prisons, statistically. The reason? Money. First, people without money have more incentive to commit crimes and less to lose if they get caught. "3 hots and a cot" often beats the alternative, believe it or not. Second, people with money can afford lawyers with experience and connections. People without money cannot. Money really is the root of all evil.
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Black people choose to not take advantage of advantages that universities offer them. Crime has proven to be the cooler choice time and again, and until that changes the prison population will be disproportionatly black.
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I think I had seen a study a while back that said blacks were dominant in US prison systems. But I know around here hispanics dominate the prison systems here. I'm sure that in some areas of the US, whites dominate.
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The human Race.
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