Black and ethnic minority offenders are far more likely to be jailed than white criminals for some crimes, according to an investigation into suspected racial bias in the courts system.
Black men convicted of drugs offences were 41 per cent more likely to be locked up than their white counterparts – and black women were 127 per cent more likely to be sent to prison.
Among those convicted in magistrates’ courts in 2014 for sex offences, 208 black men and 193 Asian men were jailed for every 100 white men.
The findings were set out in a study forming part of a review into race and the criminal justice system ordered by David Cameron.
It is being led by David Lammy, the Labour MP for Tottenham.
It found black men were more than three times more likely than white men to be arrested, while BAME men were also more likely to be remanded in custody.
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