American Apartheid by Stephanie Woodard

Author:Stephanie Woodard
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781632460691
Publisher: IG Publishing
Published: 2018-08-01T16:00:00+00:00

Long distances between reservations and federal courts mean Natives on trial there almost never face juries of their peers; they also confront more severe sentences than non-Natives, who go to state court, with its more lenient sentences and opportunities for parole, probation, and alternative sentencing. (Joseph Zummo)

Even a short prison term can be a kind of life sentence, said O. J. Semans, the Rosebud Sioux legislative affairs director of the Coalition of Large Tribes and the codirector of the voting-rights group Four Directions.30 Semans observed that most jobs on most reservations are with the tribal or federal government and that a conviction disqualifies a person for employment. If the accused receives a longer sentence, said Wandering Medicine of the Northern Cheyenne, he or she simply disappears, often for a very long time.

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