Latino Mass Incarceration Crisis
Words: 717 Pages: 2 4366The interaction of Latinos with the U. S. justice system has been notably low, paralleling the experiences of African Americans. This phenomenon is deeply rooted in the overrepresentation of Hispanic individuals within the criminal justice framework. According to a study by Michigan State University in 2004, Hispanic defendants are imprisoned three times as often and are detained before trial nearly twice as often as their white counterparts, despite being the least likely of all ethnic groups to have a criminal […]