Race still plays a crucial role in several criminal justice outcomes ranging from imposition of death penalty to convictions based on race.Explain

Literature Synthesis
The manner in which the war on drugs has been executed remains one the major reasons for the growing racial discrepancies being experienced within the criminal justice. Analysis by policy analysts indicate that some minorities, urban, and some cities far more intensively than others do. Although blacks only 13 percent of the population, F.B.I data show that 33 percent of those arrested for drug violations while the whites represented two-thirds (MacDonald, 2014). The race discrepancy is associated with the way the drug war was conceived. The problem is that the drug issue could still be primarily taken as a menace of the black inner city. Race still plays a crucial role in several criminal justice outcomes ranging from imposition of death penalty to convictions based on race. A particular critical aspect of race within the country’s criminal justice system concerns sentencing since the prospect of a rather radically discriminatory process largely violates the basic ideals of equality under the law that the system is premised
Racial discrepancies within the sentencing process seem to be consistent with the larger pattern of racial discrimination that plagues the country’s criminal justice system right from arrest through to incarceration. There are stark racial discriminations in police stops, searches, and frisks. For instance, out of 4.4 million stops of pedestrians made by police in New York in 2012, 83 percent were African-American or Latino while only 10 percent were white (Quantity, 2014).
They correct mistakes in previous studies like statistically controlling for the seriousness of committed crimes (Mauer, 2007). Additionally, modern studies have rejected the assumptions that sentencing process is universally plagued by the racial bias. Instead of such perspectives, contemporary studies attempts to answer the question on the circumstances under which it racial bias exists within the criminal sentencing process and when it is most apparent (MacDonald, 2014).
Literature Synthesis
On the other, various literatures have documented ineffectiveness in prison health system for treating inmates with mental problems. Ditton, & United States, (1999) highlights major mile stones in prisons treatment services and their failures in offering mental treatments to probationers. The study helps to explain the situation at prison level. From the study, a number of prisoners develop mental illness while in the prison. Major groups have been identified to have committed major violence. However, only few sought mental treatment while in the prison. This study is important in order to justify the problem and hypothesis of the study. Lamb, & Weinberger, (1998) study highlights populations of inmates in United States jails and prisons. The paper brings out the issues on deteriorated health services for inmates with severe mental problems. This article will be important to for supporting my main research problem on ineffectiveness of the prison health services. Lovell, Gagliardi, & Peterson, (2014) have shown evidence of how inmates from prison continue to seek medical services after their jail term. The article is also very important in this study because it support the main research problem.

References
Ditton, P. M., & United States. (1999). Mental health and treatment of inmates and probationers. Washington, DC: U.S. Dept. of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, Bureau of Justice Statistics.
Lamb, H. R., & Weinberger, L. E. (1998). Persons with severe mental illness in jails and prisons: A review. Psychiatric Services, 49(4), 483-492.
Lovell, D., Gagliardi, G.J., & Peterson, P.D (2014). Recidivism & use of services among persons with mental illnesses after release from prison.
MacDonald, J. (2014). Decomposing Racial Disparities in Prison and Drug Treatment Commitments for Criminal Offenders in California. The Journal Of Legal Studies, 43155.
Mauer, M. (2007). Racial Blind sight And Criminal Justice: Racial Impact Statements as a Means of Reducing Unwarranted Sentencing Disparities. The Ohio State Journal Of Criminal Law, 519.
Quantity, Role, And Culpability In The Federal Sentencing Guidelines. (2014). Harvard Journal on Legislation, 51389.