And whether you are black or white, if you get arrested and charged with a felony crime for doing some things that the last three president s of the United States admitted to doing, if you are arrested for that, tried and convicted and i say tried because with hesitancy because the majority of them are plea bargains as the president knows, if you get convicted of that felony offense for that nonviolent drug offense, the collateral consequences to your life are horrendous. We now live in a nation where the chat rail consequences are profound. The collateral consequences are profund. Time behind bars reduces peoples hourly wages by 11 . Their annual employment by nine weeks, their annual earnings by 40 . It has a powerful economic impact. If a person is convicted for possession of controlled substances, use, they become ineligible for so many benefits that we would often think that we would want these very people to have. They cant get federal education grants, like a pell grant. They ca
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