The Sentencing Project: Schools and Prisons: Fifty Years After Brown v. Board of Education. This report finds that the 884,500 incarcerated African Americans is nine times the number (98,000) of blacks in prison or jail at the time of the Brown decision in 1954. The link between education and criminal justice is indicated by the fact that more than half (52%) of black men in their early 30s who are high school dropouts have a prison record. The report describes a set of factors that have contributed to these developments, including a punitive response to social problems, the "war on drugs," inadequate indigent defense resources, and "zero tolerance" policies.

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