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You'll never hear about the brother who gets up every day, works a honest 9 to 5, and then comes home to wife and kids. But he's out there. And he's the norm.



Yeah,...right.



I suppose you think 38.8 million blacks in the US are in jail?



More black men in the United States are behind bars than are in higher education, according to a new study by a Washington DC thinktank.

Following a boom in prison construction and an increase in the numbers of people being incarcerated for non-violent crimes, there were 791,600 black men in American prisons and county jails in 2000, and only 603,032 enrolled in colleges and universities, according to the Justice Policy Institute, which favours alternatives to imprisonment.

"If we were saying that more white, middle-class men were being sent to prison than to college, the president would have to declare a state of emergency," said Vincent Schiraldi, the organisation's president.

The study shows a five-fold increase in the number of incarcerated black men over the past 20 years. In 1980, 143,000 were in jail and 463,700 in higher education.

http://www.buzzle.com/editorials/8-28-2002-25410.asp
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