Maryland Has the Highest Rate of Incarcerating Black People. Electing a “Black” Dumbocrat Governor Hasn’t Stopped Blacks from Being Disproportionately Stopped, Searched, Arrested, Charged or Sentenced

According to the Maryland Alliance for Justice Reform:

What’s the problem?

Throughout Maryland’s criminal justice system, African-Americans and other minorities are impacted at more than twice the rate of White Marylanders, although whites are reported to violate the laws at roughly the same rates. This phenomenon repeats from traffic stops, to searches, arrests, charges, pretrial incarceration, prison sentences, and parole or probation.  

Some Maryland counties and Baltimore City experience this problem at rates higher than others.  

The Maryland State Commission on Criminal Sentencing Policy (MSCCSP) also is charged by statute with the responsibility to “reduce unwarranted disparity, including any racial disparity, in sentences for criminals who have committed similar crimes and have similar criminal histories.” Md.Code, Crim.Proc.Art.,sec.6-202. MSCCSP, in recent years, considered the question and  concluded that a more comprehensive study reaching far beyond sentencing is needed: 

MSCCSP, in its (December 2023-revised) “Assessment of Racial Differences in Maryland Guidelines-Eligible Sentencing Events” report, confirmed that the problem is not limited to our sentencing process: “Black and Hispanic individuals generally received more stringent criminal sentences in Maryland, including higher incarceration rates and longer sentences, on average, in comparison to White sentenced individuals”; and, further, that “Blacks’ mean offender scores are only 22% higher than Whites’ offender scores, [but] Black Marylanders’ pretrial detention is substantially higher than Whites’ and their median overall non-suspended sentences is double that of Whites.”

Overall, the disproportionate rate of incarceration of African-Americans in Maryland prisons is the highest in all 50 U.S. states – even higher than that in #2 Mississippi. Why? [MORE]

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