The Crisis This Time

From Cynthia Tucker: "If you counted black men under the jurisdiction of the criminal justice system--on probation, in prison or on parole--you'd find that their numbers are higher than those pursuing a college degree. And on any given day, about one in nine black men between the ages of 20 and 34 (more than 475,000) are locked up in city or county jails or state or federal prisons . . ." And "happily . . . there are far more young black men in college--about 530,000, ages 18 to 24--than in prison--about 106,000 in the same age group."