'We've come a long way in the United States, but the gap hasn't disappeared,' said the co-author of the research.
The gaps in sentencing handed to white and black prisoners has dropped by 80 percent in the past two decades, a study has shown. But researchers emphasized that a gap still exists.
Researchers also assessed what are known as presumptive sentences: where judges follow guidelines to decide how long an individual will be incarcerated. considering factors such as previous convictions and how serious the crime was. Overall, Hispanics had a 17 percent higher chance of being imprisoned in relation to their guideline sentence in 1992 compared with white people. By 2016, this had risen to 26 percent.
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