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However, there are people who make mistakes early on and manage to rebuild their lives. Under the current rules for many jobs and rental agencies, these people would forever be barred from gaining certain employment or finding a decent place to live for their families. I’m all for keeping felons out for the first five years after their incarceration. After that, however, people shouldn’t be penalized for the rest of their lives.

Convictions and penalties are as much about the money available for legal defense as they are about the crimes committed. How many Kennedy’s would have ended up as felons without the family piggybank? Jimmy Carter’s grandson went through a period of profound trouble, got out of it all, and ended up even having a private court session! (He died very recently, would probably have been better off serving time for a while.) George Bush the second was a well known cocaine user in his early years, and Obama freely admits using illegal drugs. When you consider how many of the felonies committed in this country are drug related, it’s easy to see that the judicial system isn’t just, whether you are black or white. It’s all about the money, like everything else.