'Color-blind' sentencing alone can't cure racial bias in U.S. criminal justice system, new study suggests
Wednesday, April 12, 2017 - 08:01
in Mathematics & Economics
According to U.S. Bureau of Justice statistics, American prisons currently house more than 2.2 million individuals, a population roughly the size of Houston, Texas. This incarceration rate is staggeringly high—no other country in the world jails such a high proportion of its citizenry.