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Examination of corrections in CA concludes, we starve programs which could have an impact on crime in order to pour money into a bloated imprisonment program which cannot work.” 

This report compares the incarceration rates of African American males in San Francisco to those of African American males in the United States overall and black males in South Africa.

The 1977 Determinate Sentencing Law was passed in an effort to achieve fairness and parity in sentencing in California. Thirteen years later, we have a system loaded down with African American men in the prime of their lives.