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Incarceration Rate For African-Americans Now Six Times The National Average

Incarceration Rate For African-Americans Now Six Times The National Average

February 21, 2013 "Information Clearing House" -  The incarceration rate for American-Americans is so high that young black men without a high school diploma are more likely to go to jail than to find a job, thereby causing the breakup of families and instilling further poverty upon them.
“Prison has become the new poverty trap,” Bruce Western, a Harvard sociologist, told the New York Times. “It has become a routine event for poor African-American men and their families, creating an enduring disadvantage at the very bottom of American society.”

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