Non-whites receive harsher sentences for inflicted traumatic bra...

Courtesy EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health  Tue, 06/03/2008 - 23:00

(University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) Non-white defendants are nearly twice as likely to receive harsher prison sentences than white defendants in North Carolina criminal cases stemming from inflicted traumatic brain injury of young children.

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