In a recent article we have been reading in class called "I'm a criminal and so are you". And it had me thinking on if what the details it presented was really true.
"I'm a criminal and so are you" is a article written by Michelle Alexander. Ms.Alexander has been researching on what we label criminals now-a-days. Michelle starts the article saying she had started to telling people recently that shes a criminal and when someone asks what she has been convicted of she says nothing. So people ask "Well, then why do you say you're a criminal?" she responds "Because I am a criminal, I say, just like you".
I think that how we treat a criminal that has been convicted is very outrageous if there crime was something minor like robbing a store or holding/selling of drugs.
Haven't you ever heard the quote "Do the crime, You do the crime". If the person has done the time for his crime and has learned to not make the same mistake twice why should he be seen as just another criminal. Say for a example if a person has been in jail for robbing a store and after he gets out and after a year or two he goes and try to find a nice job at a grocery store or appliances store but cannot attain the job because he has a past as a criminal.
Really? Come on every one deserves a second chance to show that they are capable of change.
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