Black and Latino people exceed 60 percent of the US prison population.

Evidence

Can we ignore the existence of a prison system whose highly disproportionate confinement of black and brown. people is a national scandal? Mass incarceration has become aracialized system of social control and super-exploitation with blacks and Latinos making up more than 60 percent of the current prison population (Mauer 2006 ; Alexander 2012). — Michael Omi, Howard Winant, Racial Formation in the United States, 242

Categorization

Category: Factual Claims

Related

• Nearly one in three young black men were under correctional supervision by 1995 (similarity 0.82)
• Incarceration functions as warehousing of poor and unassimilated populations (similarity 0.82)
• Modern US mass incarceration dwarfs prior decades and falls on people of color. (similarity 0.82)
• American Black prison overrepresentation actually lags the average subordinate-rate across OECD (similarity 0.80)
• Black Codes inverted Alabama’s prison population from white to black in years. (similarity 0.80)
• Jail incarceration rates fell for Black and Hispanic people but rose for Whites, 2005-2017 (similarity 0.79)
• Black people are incarcerated in state prisons at nearly five times the white rate (similarity 0.79)
• Prison expansion undermines democracy and normalizes incarceration for people of color (similarity 0.78)
• Prison reform rhetoric reinforces the prison’s permanence. (similarity 0.78)
• US civil rights expanded a diverse middle class while imprisonment of minorities ballooned (similarity 0.78)
• People are imprisoned largely because their communities are criminalized, not for crimes (similarity 0.78)
• Racial incarceration disparities persist even after controlling for arrest rates (similarity 0.78)
• Prison is treated as an inevitable fact of life even in communities it oppresses (similarity 0.78)