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     -   MIM Notes 108, January 1996  -


PRISON GROWTH DEMONSTRATES NATIONAL OPPRESSION


"Nearly 7 percent of all black male adults 
nationwide were in jail or prison last year, 
compared with less than 1 percent of white male 
adults, the Justice Department said in a report 
released today. . . .

"The report found that the incarceration rate for 
whites had remained little changed in the last 10 
years while the level for blacks had climbed 
steadily."

The total number of Blacks in prison and jail 
surpassed the number of whites in prison and jail 
for the first time in 1994. This is further 
confirmation of MIM's line that the supposed anti-
crime movement led by the bourgeois politicians is 
not an anti-crime movement but a thinly disguised 
attack on oppressed nations.

The politicians give the appearance of "doing 
something about crime," but the crime rate stays 
the same. They aren't addressing the cause of 
crime, just the politics of pleasing the 
imperialists and labor aristocracy.

NOTES: New York Times Dec. 4, 1995.

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