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The Government Makes It Harder for the Formerly Incarcerated to Be Good Citizens
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What examples do you have other than drug abuse? I don't know much about US law, but I'm pretty sure that most felonies have some kind of victim (robbery, arson, assault, etc), or at the least a potential victim (DUI, weapons charges, etc)
But I do agree that the US criminal "justice" system is horribly broken and doesn't seem to prevent people from committing crimes again.
Not american but too much time on Reddit was quick to teach how ingenious americans are in turning misdemeanors into felonies.
The three strikes law is particularly heinous.
Prostitution comes to mind.
Graffiti is a felony.
You many other examples do you need? Do you have any inking of how many people have been convicted of felony charges for nonviolent drug offenses alone?
Hell even nonviolent weapons charges. Like "having a short barreled rifle without paying $200 to the gov," etc. If you're not hurting people or planning to you're alright in my book.
Possessing a gun while being addicted.
Note, it's not while being high. It's while being an addict. It is a felony to pick up a gun if you've ever attended an AA meeting.
It is a felony to possess a gun with the wrong cosmetic feature in several states.
It is a felony to pee in public. A sex registry offense to boot.
Do you want I should go on? I could talk about actual cases of misused charges like resisting arrest. (With no other charges, so why were they being arrested?)
And then there's the ridiculous ease with which felony convictions are had. Just hold someone long enough to threaten their job and rented house and they'll plead to anything to not be homeless after they get out of pre-trial detention.
exactly. i can never pick up a gun in my life because of a stupid policy, after the medical industry screwed me over by hooking me on prescription meth.
How's that now?
There are people who have the same sentence normally reserced for a child molestor because someone was peaking into their windows before the person being peaked on got pants on.