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There are invisible cages that extend far beyond prison walls.
Every year, more than 600,000 individuals are freed from America’s jails and prisons.
But many of America’s formerly incarcerated people face numerous obstacles when integrating back into public life once free, according to Wes Caines and his former colleagues Scott Hechinger and Hannah McCrea at Brooklyn Defender Services, a public defender service in New York City.
Former prisoners are routinely denied employment, housing, education, and other benefits that would help ease their integration into life on the outside, Caines says.
For more read our Q&A with Wes Caines where he discusses his personal story of life after prison:
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American prisons are an industry. More inmates means $$ for the state . Society is at ease confining people for petty crimes long term, but we are destroying families & the inmates future.
When a lawyer says take a plea deal , Dont do i t!! Taking the plea dea is what racist people would want you to do
. KHALEIF BROWDER RIP❤
Don’t ever serve this country.
This is so true, our justice system lacks the transparency and accountability that it needs.
too many severly sick in the head and very dangerous so called normal people so im not suprised how they victimize people in many ways i learned not to trust doctors judges cops or landlords too many above the law criminals in usa
Everyone is a murderer if they eat animals. Yet we don't judge animal slaughter.
im not suprised as a poor white disabled american many blacks and spanish and arabs treated me one thousand times better compared to several white middle class americans
i was victimized by several severely sick in the head and very dangerous so called normal white middle class americans i knew like many poor americans know i could never get justice in our crooked corrupt american law system so i moved to teh arab neighborhood 14 years ago thank god i did im finally safe for the past 14 years thanks to the arabs in usa that i deal with adn im finally treated one thousand times better and i finally live in peace im a poor white disabled american i thank god for the truly normal arabs in usa they have made my country usa one thousand times better and safer for me to live in
our sick crooked corrupt law system makes me sick and the many crooked corrupt judges and cops were have in usa
Abolish the Justice trap by not being a Criminal you saying cause poverty they gotta so lets make it easy to end crime end poverty socialism ok communism il pass they broke the law there free will no onces forces cuz poverty
More poverty more crime. Your the problem sir crime Straight2Jail they set them up selfs up to fail
The system is a joke. Them judging us for anything is a joke. They murder daily. They are a pure evil empire.
Its not just or even disproportionately black people alone. Blacks interact with law enforcement, are arrested and are convicted at a rate significantly higher than any other group. They are committing more crime than any other demographic nationwide. Black men between age 15 and 25 commit over HALF of ALL the murders in the entire country. While I agree that America is simply too punitive, we have more in prison and more serving 5+ year sentences than any other nation on the planet.
im not suprised youtube put one of my paragraphs about 20 comments down below so people have a less chance of reading it
my father painted houses for white middle class americans my dad was a poor man from yugoslavia when my dad took me to work with him when i was 14 the white middle class home owner told me to my face your father dont deserve to make teh same amount of money as american born house painters so they robbed him all his life by paying him 2 thousand dollars less if the house was small and 4 to 5 thousand dollars less if the house was big my father knew he would nevver get justice in our crooked corrupt law system
if you do somthing bad enough to end up in prison your not going to be as compeditive for jobs and schools what are you gunna do ab that. its not discrimination its the consequenses of your actions.
The DOJ creates criminals.
America is systematically classist not racist
47 thousand criminal laws? Ya'll might as well make everything a crime. Good god!
Everyday i thank god im not American and that i live in a free country
You call it rigged against the poor, I call it natural selection baby
I was with you till you revealed that you where involved in a homicide, that's the opposite of the type of felom that should get a second chance
The poor do not commit more crime because they are poor. They are poor because they are criminals.
I'm a felon. Because i carried the wrong kind of knife two years before the laws changed. Now i cant vote.