home
***
CD-ROM
|
disk
|
FTP
|
other
***
search
/
TIME: Almanac 1993
/
TIME Almanac 1993.iso
/
time
/
031290
/
0312100.000
next >
Wrap
Text File
|
1992-08-28
|
988b
|
28 lines
NATION, Page 25American NotesPRISONA Lost Generation
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.
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."