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RACE: death penalty
- Amnesty International:Death Penalty and RaceA global movement of people fighting injustice and promoting human rights.
- ACLU:Race and the Death Penalty 2003Working to defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties that the Constitution and laws of the United States guarantee everyone in this country.
RACE: drugs & sentencing
- Race and the war on drugsAmerica. (Oct. 22, 2007): p5
- Crack Cocaine LimboThe New York Times. (Jan. 6, 2014)
- Move toward smarter sentencing for drugsNew Pittsburgh Courier (Pittsburgh, PA). (Feb. 19, 2014)
- U.S.-REPORT: DRUG WAR HAS UNJUSTLY TARGETED BLACK COMMUNITIES(May 7, 2008) - may be out of date
RACE: racial profiling and traffic stops
Racial bias: Longer articles
- Race and Ethnicityin Crime and Punishment in America Reference Library-- see Sentencing and minorities section.
- Issues of Fairness: Racial Bias and Quality of Legal Representationin Capital Punishment, 2010
- Issues of Fairness: Racial Bias And Quality of Legal Representationin Capital Punishment: Cruel and Unusual? 2008. similar content to 2010 version, but click on PDF at the top for clearer and additional graphs.
- Criminal Justice SystemTopic Overview in the Encyclopedia of Race and Racism
- Criminality, Race and Social FactorsTopic Overview in Encyclopedia of Race and Racism
Counter Claim: No Racial Bias
- Justice for the system: there is no institutional racism in our courts and police stationsNational Review, August 19, 2013. offering conservative commentary on politics, news, and culture.
- No race bias seen in death penalty demandUPI NewsTrack. (July 17, 2006) from a study by the Rand Corp think tank
Organizations focusing on legal issues and bias
- Equal Justice Initiative: Racial biasA private, nonprofit organization that provides legal representation to people who have been denied fair and just treatment in the legal system.
- The Innocence Project:Racial Bias in the Justice SystemA non-profit legal clinic and public policy organization dedicated to exonerating wrongfully convicted people through DNA testing and reforming the criminal justice system to prevent future injustice.
More short articles:
Racial injustice in the judicial system
racial bias in the judicial system
- Study: Race and bailStudy: Race alone not issue for bail; In response to strong concerns among members of the black community that blacks are more likely than whites to be held before trial, a federal committee found that the reasons why can be traced to 15 factors that judges must consider
- North Carolina Racial Justice Act Research Project"MSU Law Professors O’Brien and Grosso show striking patterns of racial discrimination in North Carolina capital case charging, sentencing, and juror selection decisions."
- 'Racial Justice Act' repealed in North Carolina--CNN Fri June 21, 2013