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Schools and Prisons: Fifty Years After: Brown v. Board of Education
Publication year:
2004
| Cataloged on:
Oct. 31, 2006
ANNOTATION: Issues surrounding the unprecedented and disproportionate increase in the numbers of incarcerated African Americans are discussed. Sections comprising this briefing paper include: overview; causal factors -- crime, rates, rising imprisonment, war on drugs, crack/cocaine sentencing, "School Zone" drug laws, "Three Strikes" and habitual offender policies, inadequate defense resources, and zero tolerance policies; implications; and methodology.