Steven McCain, via Mongoose Distro || It might well be argued that the Criminal Justice System is being used, deliberately, to drive labor market wage scales downward, in much the same way that the Criminal Justice System used leased convict labor to do the same during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Those bearing the burden of a criminal record often find employment difficult to obtain and are then as often forced to accept lower wages to obtain employment. That approximately 100 million Americans now have criminal records then betrays intentional design. This means that nearly one-third of all Americans have criminal records. But the picture is more complex than just this. Rather the painted picture is of a pyramid, whose base (the densest strata of criminal convictions) is set in the midst of those most needful of gainful employment and a living wage – the impoverished. As one climbs the pyramid and escapes the prison of poverty, one finds fewer and fewer criminal convictions the higher the one gets on the pyramid. On reaching the top of the pyramid one finds bright, sunny and criminal-conviction-free days, and a people who are not targeted and harassed by the criminal justice system and its actors.
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