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*Moral arguments criticize the prison system as inherently unjust. | *Moral arguments criticize the prison system as inherently unjust. | ||
**Racism. Blacks are 12.3 percent of the U.S. population (2001) but they comprise fully half of the roughly 2 million Americans currently behind bars. On any given day, 30 percent of African-American males aged 20- 29 are "under correctional supervision. Blacks constitute 13 percent of all drug users, but 35 percent of those arrested for drug possession, 55 percent of persons convicted, and 74 percent of people sent to prison. | **Racism. Blacks are 12.3 percent of the U.S. population (2001) but they comprise fully half of the roughly 2 million Americans currently behind bars. On any given day, 30 percent of African-American males aged 20- 29 are "under correctional supervision. Blacks constitute 13 percent of all drug users, but 35 percent of those arrested for drug possession, 55 percent of persons convicted, and 74 percent of people sent to prison. | ||
**The fight against drugs (war on drugs) conceals racial discrimination. In the early 21st century, the U.S. "leads the world in the number of people incarcerated in federal and state correctional facilities. There are currently more than 2 million people in American prisons or jails. Approximately one-quarter of those people held in U.S. prisons or jails have been convicted of a drug offense. The United States incarcerates more people for drug offenses than any other country. With an estimated 6.8 million Americans struggling with drug abuse or , the growth of the prison population continues to be driven largely by incarceration for drug offenses." The so-called drug war hits the black community. "None of this has anything to do with drugs. It has to do with controlling and criminalizing dangerous populations." | |||
**Disproportionality of using prisons for punishing lesser crimes (thieves, swindlers, shoplifters) | **Disproportionality of using prisons for punishing lesser crimes (thieves, swindlers, shoplifters) | ||
**Double standards of letting rich people avoid prisons and incarcerating poor people and ethnic minorities who go to prison for the lack of access to good defense lawyers. | **Double standards of letting rich people avoid prisons and incarcerating poor people and ethnic minorities who go to prison for the lack of access to good defense lawyers. | ||