Prison Pipeline... Blacks more likely to be wrongfully convicted.

Marvin Anderson wanted to be was a firefighter growing up. Instead, at 18 years old, he was wrongfully convicted of rape, sodomy, abduction and robbery. When a Virginia judge sentenced him to 210 years in prison, "My whole body went numb," Anderson told reporters. "I knew I was going to prison for something I didn't do."

It took 15 years behind bars and five years on parole before Anderson was exonerated for his crimes -- the result of DNA testing.

"I trusted in the justice system and it failed me," he said.

Anderson is just one of hundreds of black men who have been convicted of and exonerated for crimes they didn't commit. A new report from the National Registry of Exonerations, a joint project between the University of California, Irvine; University of Michigan Law School and Michigan State University College of Law, shows that black people are more likely to be wrongfully convicted than white people and are also likely to spend longer in prison before being exonerated for their crimes.

While black people represent 13% of the US population, they represent a whopping 47% of the 1,900 exonerations in the registry.

Source: National Registry of Exonerations

Innocent blacks are seven times more likely to be convicted of murder than innocent white people. Partly because homicide rates among black people are higher than among white people, and innocent black people are therefore more likely to get suspected and convicted of murder, studies claim. (According to data from the FBI, 52% of murder victims in 2014 were black and 46% were white, and 53% of offenders were black compared to 45% who were white).

In addition, murder cases where a black defendant was wrongfully convicted were 22% more likely to involve police misconduct than those involving white defendants.

Black people serving time for sexual assault are three-and-a-half times more likely to be innocent than white defendants that have been convicted of sexual assault. The bulk of the racial disparities in sexual assault convictions can be explained by white victims who mistakenly identify black assailants, particularly when the victim is a white woman and the offender a black man, studies show.

When it comes to drug crimes, innocent blacks were 12 times more likely to be convicted than innocent whites. While black and white people have similar rates of illegal drug use, black people are more likely to be arrested and convicted of such offenses than white people are, researchers found.

10-20 years of free labor to the state is also an incentive to find Black people guilty then innocent after a decade a two. The key is to always keep a foot on Black Culture's neck to impede any advancement and progress for empowerment. Laws were initially created to felonize and imprison Blacks. Cant vote. Cant travel internationally, cant legally purchase nor posses a firearm, Cant secure gainful employment.