I think there are several reasons that more young black men are incarcerated than white men. First of all I think that racial profiling does play some role in this. A white police officer is more likely to stop or arrest a black man than a white man. Another huge part of this however, probably bigger than the racial profiling is the simple fact that there are more police officers in areas that young black men live in. If you are committing a crime in an area with 20 police officers rather than in an area with 5 you are more likely to get caught.
When someone is incarcerated it affects not only them but their families and communities as well. It can often be embarrassing for families who have incarcerated members and when the incarcerated person gets out of jail they sometimes receive little or no support from their families or from their community. when they get out of prison they have no opportunity for jobs and sometimes no home to return to, so they end up committing crimes again and are often reincarcerated. In order to help fix the problem we first need to help make people aware of the problem and tell people why it is happening. we also need to start implementing more programs that help or serve people coming out of the prison system. We need more programs that help former convicts adjust to life outside of prison, by helping them find jobs and homes.

T.J.