re: #199 Obdicut

It’s both. I don’t know why you discount that possibility. Can you explain?

Perhaps it is both, but maybe I should say that income is a much greater factor than race. I should have been more clear. My friend who was a criminal justice major showed me one of his books for a class: The rich get richer, the poor get prison.

Because it’s hard to isolate for income and race separately it’s hard to know what percentage of incarceration stems from whether you were white or black, and what part is because you were poor and couldn’t afford adequate defense.

For example, if demographic statistics show that the African Americans are convicted moreso than whites in a given area, can you then cross-reference the average median income and see if it’s because their white/black, or because their’ rich/poor.