An African American male born in 1975 and who didnt finish high school has a nearly 70 percent chance of serving jail time by his mid-thirties. Thats 53 percentage points higher than a white male born in the same year who also lacks a high school diploma. ...An African American child whose father didnt complete high school has a 50 percent chance of seeing her father incarcerated by the time shes 14. That deprives her of a father, of course, but it also deprives her of whatever economic security she might have had. In 2007, approximately half of parents in state prisons were the primary provider of financial support for their children, reports the Hamilton Project. vox/2014/5/5/5683220/Americas-mexico-prison-rate
Posted on: Mon, 05 May 2014 21:19:32 +0000
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