Black Americans are more likely to get federal life sentences than whites or Latinos, a new study has found.
, further illustrates the racial disparities of federal sentencing at a time when advocates are pushing for sentencing reforms for nonviolent offenders.An examination of more than 366,000 offenders convicted and sentenced in 90 federal district courts from 2010 to 2017 found racial disparities around life sentences targeting Black offenders.
Black offenders accounted for fewer than a third of all cases but constituted nearly half of those eligible for life sentences.
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