Drug Law Enforcement and Race in the United States
In this 67-page report, Human Rights Watch documents with detailed new statistics persistent racial disparities among drug offenders sent to prison in 34 states. All of these states send black drug offenders to prison at much higher rates than whites.
Read the Report
ISBN: 1-56432-315-3
ISBN: 1-56432-315-3
Get the Report
- Targeting Blacks
- Acknowledgments
- I. Introduction
- II. Recommendations
- III. Background: The War on Drugs and theUS Criminal Justice System
- IV. Race and the Incarceration of Drug Offenders
- V. Changes between 1996 and 2003
- VI. Origins of Racial Disparities in Prison Admissions for Drug Offenses
- VII. Racial Injustice and Human Rights
- VIII. Conclusion
- IX. Methodology
