As part of my efforts to educate myself and any viewer of this blog, I have found a compelling side-topic of prison reform inherently related to the issue of wrongful convictions. The established disparity in numbers of people convicted based on racial profiling and other illegal and unconstitutional classifications have perpetuated a demographic highly concentrated by minorities, and more significantly African Americans.

Despite an exponentially lower concentration within the free society, African Americans comprise of 9x the number of Caucasians within the prison system, according to May 2000 findings of the Human Rights Watch.* Racial disparity in the justice system has been a problem as far back as United States history reaches. And regardless of the major breakthroughs and movements toward a society of equality, we still have a justice system that sees in black and white, says every statistic reviewed.

For additional insight check the above book out at your local library. Race to Incarcerate: The Sentencing Project by: Marc Mauer

*http://www.hrw.org/reports/2000/usa/