In case you're denying that institutional racism still exists, I have multiple clients who, thanks to the school to prison pipeline, are now adults facing eviction. And their first arrests were so young that they never were taught how to read.
I had a classmate in the little state college I did my first two years of undergrad at, who had been arrested and jailed at 17. He was a good dude. Very smart, kind, generous. He had made a mistake as a teenager. When the rest of us were transferring to universities (1)
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He was trying to fight to get in, because of his felony. He ultimately wasn’t successful and ended up in prison again. For selling pot to pay the bills because he also couldn’t find a job. Incarcerated people CONTINUE to be punished even after their sentence (2)