You’ve probably heard about racial disparity in the U.S. criminal justice system. With the deaths of Michael Brown in Ferguson and Eric Garner in New York in the last few years, national attention has been brought to racial injustice in policing.
But it’s not just the police who are responsible for racial discrimination in the criminal justice system. People of color are several times more likely to be incarcerated than white people in the United States. This discrimination, combined with the United States’s problem of mass incarceration—the U.S. has the highest prison population in the world—this leads to incredibly high numbers of black and Hispanic men imprisoned in the United States.
This excellent infographic from the ACLU visualizes the issue of mass incarceration and racial discrimination in the criminal justice system:

You can learn more about racial disparity in the criminal justice system by checking out the ACLU’s website.
We also have a video on racial inequality in the criminal justice system—check it below out to learn more.