That's the kind of stuff I was familiar with, but the magnitude of incarceration shocked me. 

I recall it was roughly 1/4 young black men incarcerated vs 1/5 employed. Those are such crazy numbers.

The racial inequities are well known. The whole crack v. powder cocaine sentence disparity was an embarrassment. Check out this link:
https://civilrights.org/blog/its-time-to-end-the-racist-and-unjustified-sentencing-disparity-between-crack-and-powder-cocaine/

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In one of my labor economics courses we were going over long-term trends in employment related to racial disparities. Despite being pretty well informed about the drug war, that's where I learned that since the 1980's young black men have been more likely to be incarcerated than employed in America.

It's such a heartbreaking situation and the vested interests you describe make it politically difficult to fix.

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In one of my labor economics courses we were going over long-term trends in employment related to racial disparities. Despite being pretty well informed about the drug war, that's where I learned that since the 1980's young black men have been more likely to be incarcerated than employed in America. 

It's such a heartbreaking situation and the vested interests you describe make it politically difficult to fix.