Byline: Dorothy Gilliam
The statistics are, in a word, terrible. According to a new study, nearly one in four young black men in America is in jail or prison, on parole or probation. The Sentencing Project, a Washington group urging alternatives to prison sentences, estimated the number to be 609,690. That number is substantially higher than those black men enrolled in higher education in 1986: 436,000.
Hearing those statistics, some people indifferently shrug their shoulders. Others express outrage, despair and frustration. Civil rights leaders argue for more resources to deal with the causes of crime: early and improved education and training, more employment opportunities, defeating …
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