Target: United States Congress Goal: Reform the current criminal
justice system to combat racial discrimination Today, people of
color make up 60 percent of inmates while comprising only 30
percent of U.S. population. This absurdity is not the result of
behavioral disparities, contrary to the sadly common belief that
black people are more prone to serious crime than other races,
specifically whites. In a recent study published by professors
of Harvard, the University of Chicago, and the University of
Pennsylvania, the criminal justice system is racially biased. In
almost all courtrooms across the country, bias occurs whether or
not the judge is admittedly affected by racial prejudice, and
therefore a system must be enacted to protect the rights of
minority citizens who suffer consistently worse punishments for
committing the same crimes as whites. The study was conducted
using two controlled groups – one consisted of judges that
displayed a low propensity towards racial bias, while the other
group of judges w