Bombshell paper finds the federal judges guilty of the most racist sentencing
FilterAugust 02, 2021
It has long been known that people of color get harsher criminal sentences in federal criminal court for the same crimes as white people. In the federal criminal justice system, the powerful US Sentencing Commission itself has come to this conclusion.
But the numbers obtained and analyzed by researchers usually have shown this on a birds eye view-level only. That is by design. The US Judicial Conference has a policy of screening out judges names from federal databases of cases, claiming that it is concerned about the potential for judge-specific information taken out of context to be misinterpreted, the administrative burden of compiling information to satisfy outside requests, and the availability to researchers of the information from individual courts.
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