Focus (Forum & Focus)
Sep. 15, 2007
Southern Racial Violence Case Illustrates Double Standards in Sentencing
Forum Column - By Earl Ofari Hutchinson - The aftermath of black-on-white violence in the small Louisiana town of Jena bears out racial disparities for teens in the criminal justice system.
By Earl Ofari Hutchinson
Four years before an indifferent press and public finally fumed at the news that a judge tossed the book at six black teens in the small Louisiana town of Jena for beating up a white teen following a racially charged incident, a legislative investigative team sternly warned that the state's juvenile justice system was horribly mangled. It found that Louisiana was locking up juveniles at b...
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