High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Racial inequality in the criminal justice system is a topic that has become increasingly more relevant with the rising penal population in the United States. Education and race seem to be the most decisive factors when deciding who goes to jail and what age cohort has the greatest percentage chance of incarceration. Race inequalities in the criminal justice system have a strong effect of many realms of society such as the family life, and employment. Going to prison no longer affects just the individual who committed the crime but instead, the family and community left behind gain a new burden by one individual's actions. The United States still has a large disparity between Whites and Blacks and now a growing Hispanic population. This racial disparity in the educational system, job sector, and neighborhoods have all contributed to the booming prison population in the latter part of the 20th century which has only continued to widen in the 21st century.