Massive Latino Incarceration
Words: 921 Pages: 3 4298Currently, Latinos are expressing a low interaction with the police, prisons, courts and the US justice system just as African Americans. According to a recent research, "Hispanics are overrepresented in the nation's criminal justice system, with Hispanic defendants imprisoned three times as often and detained before trial for first-time offenses almost twice as often as whites, despite being the least likely of all ethnic groups to have a criminal history" (Michigan State University, 2004). The current justice system is apparently […]