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- <title>
- Mar. 12, 1990: American Notes:Prison
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- Mar. 12, 1990 Soviet Disunion
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- NATION, Page 25
- American Notes
- PRISON
- A Lost Generation
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p> Civil rights activists and social scientists have long
- warned that poor education, drug abuse, high crime rates and
- widespread violence have made young black men an endangered
- species. Last week a report issued by the Sentencing Project, a
- Washington-based organization that promotes research on criminal
- justice, found that approximately 609,000 African-American males
- between the ages of 20 and 29--almost 1 of every 4--are
- either in prison, on probation or on parole. Comparable figures
- for whites are 1 in 16 and for Hispanics 1 in 10.
- </p>
- <p> Only 436,000 black males in the same age group are enrolled
- in college or any other form of higher education. Warns Marc
- Mauer, the study's author: "We now risk the possibility of
- writing off an entire generation of black men from leading
- productive lives."
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
- </text>
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