{"id":7016,"date":"2018-01-24T10:30:13","date_gmt":"2018-01-24T15:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/?p=7016"},"modified":"2022-03-02T15:05:49","modified_gmt":"2022-03-02T20:05:49","slug":"new-poll-shows-mass-incarceration-is-a-latinx-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/2018\/01\/24\/new-poll-shows-mass-incarceration-is-a-latinx-issue\/","title":{"rendered":"New poll shows mass incarceration is a Latinx issue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nEarlier this month <a href=\"http:\/\/latinojustice.org\">LatinoJustice PRLDEF<\/a>, a national not-for-profit Latino civil rights organization, released findings from a new <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180124032534\/http:\/\/latinojustice.org\/briefing_room\/press_releases\/national_poll_shows_latinos_are_concerned_about_police_violence_feel_less_safe_under_trump_but_insist_on_increased_spending_on_rehabilitation_instead_of_more_funding_for_prisons_or_police\/\">national poll<\/a> of the Latinx community on their views of the criminal justice system. Whereas most survey research on criminal justice issues tend to abide by a Black-white binary, this poll brings to light the impact of mass incarceration in the lives of people often left out of the conversation.\n<\/p>\n<p>Senior Analyst Edward D. Vargas finds that, like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aclu.org\/sites\/default\/files\/field_document\/aclu_campaign_for_smart_justice_polling_memo_2.pdf\">most Americans<\/a>, the majority of Latinxs favor rehabilitation over more punitive responses to crime, such as added police or prisons.<span class=\"pullquote\" title=\"The majority of Latinxs favor rehabilitation over more punitive responses to crime, such as added police or prisons\"><\/span> Almost 60% of Latinx respondents felt less safe in the wake of Trump\u2019s presidency. Other findings include:\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In the context of widespread attention to the treatment of African Americans by the police, 64% of respondents believed that Latinx people face similar treatment at the hands of the police. <\/li>\n<li>57% of all respondents and 70% of Afro Latinx-identified respondents believed that the police are more likely to unjustly use deadly force against Latinx people than against whites.<\/li>\n<li>84% of respondents believed that police officers should not stop and search people simply because of their race or ethnicity.<\/li>\n<li>83% of Democrats and 70% of Republican respondents support the voting rights of people who have \u201cpaid their debt to society\u201d after being convicted of a crime.<\/li>\n<li>67% of respondents believe that the Department of Justice should collect better data on Latinx people in the criminal justice system. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Latinx community is diverse, making it difficult to conclude that any one view defines their experience as a whole. But one thing <i>is<\/i> clear: mass incarceration is a Latinx issue. <\/p>\n<p>Latinx people make up about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/reports\/rates.html\">20% of the U.S. incarcerated population<\/a>, they experience <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bjs.gov\/content\/pub\/pdf\/cpp08.pdf\">differential treatment<\/a> at the hands of the police, face <a href=\"https:\/\/www.researchgate.net\/profile\/Anthony_Peguero\/publication\/254097169_Latinoa_Student_Misbehavior_and_School_Punishment\/links\/543d47db0cf25d6b1ad754be.pdf\">stiffer school discipline<\/a> than their white peers, and are increasingly subject to harassment by ICE, making this poll both timely and informative. The majority of Latinx people want reform. As Juan Cartagena, President of LatinoJustice PRLDEF, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/entry\/latinos-concerned-about-their-public-safety-prioritize_b_5a5669f5e4b024fa0543b64a\">explains<\/a> in a recent piece for HuffPost, \u201ctheir voices need to be heard.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new poll from Latino Justice PRLDEF shows that the Latinx community is deeply concerned about mass incarceration. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52,1],"tags":[61],"coauthors":[42],"class_list":["post-7016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-briefings","category-uncategorized","tag-racial-justice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7016"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7016\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13307,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7016\/revisions\/13307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7016"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=7016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}