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How does adding more minority and women judges affect theadministration of justice? Using a Tobit regression model andcontrolling for such factors as the sentence recommended by thePennsylvania sentencing guidelines showed that black judges handeddown longer incarceration sentences than white judges and that,although white judges did not tend to sentence black offenders anymore severely than they did white offenders, black judges did tendto sentence black offenders to longer prison terms than whitejudges gave to white offenders.

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Perspectives By Judge Juan Villaseñor and Laurel Quinto | January 10, 2021, 8:02 PM EST On the heels of nationwide calls to address systemic racism and inequality, sitting judges shed light on the disparities that exist in the justice system and how to guard against bias in Judge Juan Villaseñor Laurel Quinto Racial disparities exist in the criminal justice system. We believe that such a statement is an uncontroversial proposition. The U.S. now imprisons a greater percentage of its population than any other country in the world.[1] And minorities — African Americans and Latinos...