Black People : More blacks jailed in England than US

More black people jailed in England and Wales proportionally than in US

Randeep Ramesh

The proportion of black people in prison in England and Wales is higher than in the United States, a landmark report released today by the Equality and Human Rights Commission reveals.

The commission's first triennial report into the subject, How Fair is Britain, shows that the proportion of people of African-Caribbean and African descent incarcerated here is almost seven times greater to their share of the population. In the United States, the proportion of black prisoners to population is about four times greater.

The report, which aims to set out how to measure "fairness" in Britain, says that ethnic minorities are "substantially over-represented in the custodial system". It suggests many of those jailed have "mental health issues, learning disabilities, have been in care or experienced abuse".

Experts and politicians said over-representation of black men was a result of decades of racial prejudice in the criminal justice system and an overly punitive approach to penal affairs.

"People will be and should be shocked by this data," said Juliet Lyon, director of the Prison Reform Trust. "We have a tendency to say we are better than the US, but we have not got prison right."

Lyon said that although there had been "numerous efforts to address racism in the prison system … we have yet to get a better relationship between justice authorities and black communities. Instead we have ended up with mistrust breeding mistrust."

Evidence of this damaged relationship can be found in the commission's report. On the streets, black people were subjected to what the report describes as an "excess" of 145,000 stop and searches in 2008. It notes that black people constitute less than 3% of the population, yet made up 15% of people stopped by police.

The commission found that five times more black people than white people per head of population in England and Wales are imprisoned. The ethnic minority prison population has doubled in a decade – from 11,332 in 1998 to 22,421 in 2008. Over a similar period, the overall number of prisoners rose by less than two thirds. The commission says that the total number of people behind bars accelerated in the last decade despite "a similar number of crimes being reported to the police as in the early 1990s … the volume of indictable offences has fallen over this time".

A quarter of the people in prison are from an ethnic minority. Muslims now make up 12% of the prison population in England and Wales.

Some on the left of the Labour party blame its policies while in power. Diane Abbott, who raised the alarm over the growing numbers of jailed black men as a backbencher, said she "very much regretted that the last Labour government swallowed [former home secretary] Michael Howard's line that 'prison works'."

"There was never a serious examination of the consequences of locking up a generation of young black men. The result is there are some prisons in the south east which are now virtually all black. Many are converting to Islam."

The problems may start at school. The commission points out that black children are three times as likely to be permanently excluded from education.

READ MORE: http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2010/oct/11/black-prison-population-increase-england
I mean no disrespect or ugliness but

when I read the title
of this post

I tried to think of what Malcolm X , Dr Ben Jochanan, Dr John Henrik Clarke, Dr Francis Cress Welsing, Dr Neely Fuller, Dr Khalid Muhammed,

and Dr. Amos Wilson, would have to say about this;

When a person, of their own free will,
leaves the Black nation of their people whether Caribbean or African,
and rather then go through the struggle for a better life for all Black people in the nation of their birth,

the way that Black folks did here in the USA as a minority
during the Civil Rights struggle and the Black Power struggle

but instead paid for an expensive boat ticket or plane ticket, or jet ticket

to go thousands of miles

and live
amongst the people who had raped, enslaved mutilated and colonized

their ancestors for 400 years

and do this of their own volition



What do they expect???????


If you lay down with dogs,
not only will you get fleas, you mite get rabies as well
 
I mean no disrespect or ugliness but

when I read the title
of this post

I tried to think of what Malcolm X , Dr Ben Jochanan, Dr John Henrik Clarke, Dr Francis Cress Welsing, Dr Neely Fuller, Dr Khalid Muhammed,

and Dr. Amos Wilson, would have to say about this;

When a person, of their own free will,
leaves the Black nation of their people whether Caribbean or African,
and rather then go through the struggle for a better life for all Black people in the nation of their birth,

the way that Black folks did here in the USA as a minority
during the Civil Rights struggle and the Black Power struggle

but instead paid for an expensive boat ticket or plane ticket, or jet ticket

to go thousands of miles

and live
amongst the people who had raped, enslaved mutilated and colonized

their ancestors for 400 years

and do this of their own volition



What do they expect???????


If you lay down with dogs,
not only will you get fleas, you mite get rabies as well

Where do you live Ankhur?

 
Where do you live Ankhur?
I am not a person, I am a computer program, loaded with the ideologies of Franz Fanon
Julius Nyere
Patrice Lumumba
Kwame Nkhrumah,
Stephen Biko
Samore Michel
Jomo Kenyatta
Nat Turner
Denmark Vessey
Carter G Woodson
Marcus Garvey
Lerone Hansburry
Malcom X
Fannie lou Hamer
Fred Hampton
Robert Williams
Assata Shakur
dr Ben Jochannan
Dr Neely Fuller
Dr Naiim Akbar
Dr Claude Anderson
Dr Marimba Ani
Ra Un Nefer Amen
Professor Mackey
Queen Mother Moore
Dr Wade Nobles
Dr Chandler
Sonny Carson
Dr John Henrk Clarke
Dr Molefi Asante
Dr Khalid Muhammed
Dr Joy Degruy

and what planet or dimension are you from?
 
I am not a person, I am a computer program, loaded with the ideologies of Franz Fanon
Julius Nyere
Patrice Lumumba
Kwame Nkhrumah,
Stephen Biko
Samore Michel
Jomo Kenyatta
Nat Turner
Denmark Vessey
Carter G Woodson
Marcus Garvey
Lerone Hansburry
Malcom X
Fannie lou Hamer
Fred Hampton
Robert Williams
Assata Shakur
dr Ben Jochannan
Dr Neely Fuller
Dr Naiim Akbar
Dr Claude Anderson
Dr Marimba Ani
Ra Un Nefer Amen
Professor Mackey
Queen Mother Moore
Dr Wade Nobles
Dr Chandler
Sonny Carson
Dr John Henrk Clarke
Dr Molefi Asante
Dr Khalid Muhammed
Dr Joy Degruy

and what planet or dimension are you from?

You're more like Windows 95

 

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