Excellent article. One comment: "The Center for American Progress has noted that people of color are six times as likely to be incarcerated for drug offenses than their white counterparts" My guess is people of color are six times as likely to be low income. Criminality can be seen most clearly through income, not race.
I am discouraged to learn about these trends in Portugal. Losses for everyone. I appreciate the facts you provide along with the broad view of a complex social and medical problem. Thank you for including the HUGE disparities in US incarceration rates: "...people of color are six times as likely to be incarcerated for drug offenses than their white counterparts despite equal use of illegal substances." To some people, this is just another form of institutionalized racism rooted in slavery.
Excellent article. One comment: "The Center for American Progress has noted that people of color are six times as likely to be incarcerated for drug offenses than their white counterparts" My guess is people of color are six times as likely to be low income. Criminality can be seen most clearly through income, not race.
Excellent point
I am discouraged to learn about these trends in Portugal. Losses for everyone. I appreciate the facts you provide along with the broad view of a complex social and medical problem. Thank you for including the HUGE disparities in US incarceration rates: "...people of color are six times as likely to be incarcerated for drug offenses than their white counterparts despite equal use of illegal substances." To some people, this is just another form of institutionalized racism rooted in slavery.