[MTAtech]

Originally Posted by Epidemic

I am sorry but I take issue with this.

If the racial makeup of people in jail were much different then that would be racial discrimination. people in jail are overwhelmingly there because they did harm to their community.

So if minority is the majority in prison then that is because Minorities were preying on their fellow minority members.

Sorry to say, that's a naive view. Blacks are in prison in greater proportion to whites for two main reasons.

The first reason is that a greater proportion of blacks are in poverty compared to whites and have less job opportunities. As such, they have less access to proper legal representation; more likely to be convicted and more likely to serve jail time.

The second reason is that blacks (who primarily live in cities) are more likely to get caught. Drugs are the main crime for blacks in jail. In white suburbs, high school students sell drugs to each other from the privacy of their homes where it is unlikely law enforcement lurks. In cities, drugs are sold on the streets, in plain view.