Abstract
ABSTRACT In 2000, a Human Rights Watch report identified Illinois as having the country's highest African American–White disparity in prison admissions for drug offenses. In response to the report, a disproportionate minority confinement (DMC) working group was formed to investigate further the nature and extent of racial disparities in the incarceration of drug offenders in Illinois. This article summarizes information collected in the DMC project, discusses national trends in arrests and incarcerations for drug offenses, and describes the unstinting growth in the prison population attributable to increases in the number of persons imprisoned for drug offenses. It concludes with recommendations for future research on the origins of disproportionality as well as policy changes to alleviate prison overcrowding and racial disparities in imprisonment for drug crimes.
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