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FIGHT THE RACIST CRIMINAL INJUSTICE SYSTEM (repost)

UIC ISO FORUM
FIGHT THE RACIST CRIMINAL INJUSTICE SYSTEM
Thursday, October 21, 7pm
UIC ISO FORUM
FIGHT THE RACIST CRIMINAL INJUSTICE SYSTEM


Thursday, October 21, 7pm


The US criminal injustice system is guilty of a variety of abuses, ranging from police brutality to the severely inhumane treatment of prisoners to the imposition of the death penalty, a practice long condemned by the United Nations, and even though violent crime has been decreasing for decades, the system is growing rapidly - all in the face of glaring racism, evident in statistics:


African Americans represent:
12.7% of the US population
48.2% of American adults in jail
42.5% of prisoners under sentence of death
15% of US drug users
36.8% of those convicted of a drug offense
More black men are in jail than college


Latinos represent:
11.1% of the US population
18.6% of American adults in jail
10% of US drug users
22.5% of those convicted of a drug offense


Come to a discussion featuring Madison Hobley, exonerated death row inmate and Campaign to End the Death Penalty activist, for a discussion on the racist criminal injustice system and what we can do to fight it.


Thursday, October 21 @ 7 pm
University of Illinois ­ Chicago 750 S. Halsted
Chicago Circle Center, Rm Fort Dearborn B


Sponsored by the International Socialist Organization, publishers of Socialist Worker newspaper www.socialistworker.org


For more information:
312-316-2634
chicago_socialists (at) yahoo.com


Sources:
Bureau of Justice Statistics Bulletin, Prisoners in 1998
Statistical Abstract of the United States, 1999
Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics, 1998
National Household Survey on Drug Abuse, 1998
Bureau of Justice Statistics Bulletin: Prisoners and Jail Inmates at
Midyear 1999
1997 Statistical Yearbook of the Immigration and Naturalization
Service
 
 

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