More young black men have done prison time than military service or earned college degree
Being jailed in federal or state
prisons has become so common today that more young black men
in the United States have done time than have served
in the military or earned a college degree, according to new study.
The paper, appearing this week in the American Sociological Review,estimates
that 20 percent of all black men born from 1965 through 1969 had served
time in prison by the time they reached their early 30s. By
comparison, less than 3 percent of white males born in thesame time period
had been in prison.[more]