Los Angeles County District Attorney Nathan Hochman has said his office does not seek sentences of convicted felons based on the race of the defendant, but on the nature of the crime. But columnist Earl Ofari Hutchinson writes that Black convicts still receive longer sentences than white criminals convicted of the same crime.

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By Earl Ofari Hutchinson

Contributing Columnist

The Stanford University Three Strikes Project has found that Blacks get a much harsher sentence than whites for the same crime.

That is hardly the revelation of the ages for many criminal justice reform advocates. They have long contended, backed up by a wealth of facts, figures, studies and reports, that race does matter in a big, infuriating way when it comes to criminal sentencing.

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