Dec 17, 2016 ... It exposes the fact that African-American defendants get more time behind bars  — sometimes twice the prison terms of whites with identical criminal histories —  when they ... Blacks were given much longer prison sentences in Florida than  whites for felony drug possession involving the same circumstances.
Jul 13, 2016 ... We fact-checked a similar statement in February 2016, when presumptive  Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton declared that "African- Americans are more likely to be arrested by police and sentenced to longer  prison terms for doing the same thing that whites do." We rated that statement  True.
Oct 27, 2014 ... Black male federal defendants receive longer sentences than whites arrested for  the same offenses and ... The level of disproportionate representation of Blacks  among prisoners who are serving life sentences .... Blacks were 23 times more  likely than whites to be sentenced to LWOP for a nonviolent crime.
In 1991 in Los Angeles, a bystander videotaped police officers beating Rodney  King, a black man. People in the African-American community had long  complained of cases of police brutality. At long last, they had clear evidence--a  videotape. But at the trial in state court, the jury acquitted the four officers of using  excessive ...
Aug 9, 2015 ... Police arrest black Americans for drug crimes at twice the rate of whites,  according to federal data, despite the fact that whites use drugs at comparable  rates and sell drugs at comparable or even higher ... Black Americans are more  likely to serve longer sentences than white Americans for the same offense.
African-Americans are more likely to be arrested by police and sentenced to longer prison terms for doing the same thing that whites do.