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We know there's another seven million people on probation or parole, we know that the criminal justice system disproportionately affects people of color, particularly poor people of color.
When we talk about criminal justice reform, we, as a society, focus on three things.
This led to his arrest and a criminal complaint of 30 felony charges.
But what he had little understanding of was the impact a criminal record would have on his future.
History has conditioned us to believe that somehow, the criminal justice system brings about accountability and improves public safety, despite evidence to the contrary.
Arraigning Christopher would give him a criminal record, making it harder for him to get a job, setting in motion a cycle that defines the failing criminal justice system today.
With a criminal record and without a job, Christopher would be unable to find employment, education or stable housing.
And yet, prosecutors are the most powerful actors in the criminal justice system.
The decision to arraign Christopher and give him a criminal record was exclusively mine.
He never faced a judge or a jail, he never had a criminal record.
When I saw him that first day in Roxbury Court, I didn't see a criminal standing there.
As an individual caught selling a large quantity of drugs in my late teens, I knew firsthand the power of opportunity as opposed to the wrath of the criminal justice system.
So criminal prosecution is a real option.
It's hard to get a conventional job when you have a criminal record.
Fines and criminal records force people to keep selling sex, rather than enabling them to stop.
And searching for African-American names is more likely to bring up ads suggesting criminal history, even when there is none.
It was academic probation, not criminal probation.
He had dropped out, he was a gang member, a criminal.
The United Nations estimates that 80 percent of it is from highly organized and ultrasophisticated criminal gangs.
And this was so flawlessly executed that they were moving between a half a million and a million and a half dollars per attempt into their criminal coffers.
These criminal organizations operate like highly regimented, legitimate businesses.
Of course, if you're going to buy an attack, you're going to buy from a reputable criminal with good ratings, right?
In a blog post, she positioned Bilal Bot as a new, inexpensive and beta alternative to the much more advanced GM Bot that was commonplace in the criminal underground.
We know that there are two kinds of looting going on: looting by criminal elements like ISIL, and then more local looting by those that are desperate for money.
We've pushed criminal justice reform.
But misidentifying a suspected criminal is no laughing matter, nor is breaching civil liberties.
It wasn't until I arrived in graduate school and witnessed firsthand the criminal actions of scientists and engineers in the water crisis in Flint, Michigan that I realized how dangerous and yet surprisingly common this line of thinking really is.
At 60? Get a good job, or go back to the very criminal behavior that led him to prison in the first place?
Wealthier families are better positioned to finance an elite, independent school and college education, access capital to start a business, finance expensive medical procedures, reside in neighborhoods with higher amenities, exert political influence through campaign finance, purchase better legal counsel if confronted with an expensive criminal justice system, leave a bequest and/or withstand financial hardship resulting from any number of emergencies.
Or to predict who the next criminal would be?
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