Census Study Finds That the Number of Blacks in Prison Is Triple the Number of Blacks Who Live in College Dormitories

The U.S. Census Bureau reports that there are three times as many African Americans housed in prisons as there are blacks who live in college dormitories. The study found that in 2006 there were 846,735 African Americans incarcerated in adult correctional facilities in the United States. But there were only 270,018 African Americans who lived in college dormitories.

For the entire population of the United States, including all races, there were about 250,000 more people living in college dormitories than in prisons. The data does not include so-called commuter students or those who live off-campus.

Source: Journal of Blacks in Higher Education, October 17, 2007.

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If Barack Obama won the Democratic nomination for president of the United States, “every Democrat running on that ticket next year would lose, because he’s black and he’s top of the ticket. We’d lose the House, the Senate, and the governors and everything.”

— South Carolina state senator Robert Ford, an African American, in his announcement endorsing Hillary Clinton for president.

When you post this information it is important to point out that the age ranges are not comparable. To measure the number of men in prison, they use ages 15-85 or the oldest prisoner but when speaking of college men in dorms we know that the age range is somewhere around 17-21.

Please if you repeat these statistics be careful to point out that for prisons they are counting an age range that is about 14 or 15 times larger than the age range of college students.

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Originally posted by BleedingOrangeandGreen:
When you post this information it is important to point out that the age ranges are not comparable. To measure the number of men in prison, they use ages 15-85 or the oldest prisoner but when speaking of college men in dorms we know that the age range is somewhere around 17-21.

Please if you repeat these statistics be careful to point out that for prisons they are counting an age range that is about 14 or 15 times larger than the age range of college students.

This statistic does not include the black males who commute to college especially a likely significant number that commute to community colleges.