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<summary>Disturbing analysis reported on [http://projects.heraldtribune.com/bias/sentencing/ here]. Key paragraphs: </summary>

:Points are now used to calculate sentences based on the severity of the crime, the defendant’s prior record and a host of other factors. The idea is to punish criminals in Pensacola the same as those in Key West — no matter their race, gender or wealth.

:But the point system has not stopped discrimination.

:In Manatee County, judges sentence whites convicted of felony drug possession to an average of five months behind bars.

:They give blacks with identical charges and records more than a year.

:Judges in the Florida Panhandle county of Okaloosa sentence whites to nearly five months for battery.

:They lock up blacks for almost a year.

:Along the state’s northeast shore, judges in Flagler County put blacks convicted of armed robbery away for nearly triple the time.
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Disturbing analysis reported on [http://projects.heraldtribune.com/bias/sentencing/ here]. Key paragraphs:
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