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In the United States, we owe formerly incarcerated people. This fact is abundantly clear when you evaluate the status quo. A person who completes their sentenced punishment after being found guilty has paid their debt to society. Unfortunately, laws across the country force formerly incarcerated people to continue to pay for their misconduct long after their release from the criminal legal system. These collateral consequences of incarceration are often unrelated to the person\u2019s crime and dramatically hinder the reentry process. Cultural stigma, legal discrimination, and enhanced trauma describe the reality for hundreds of thousands of people in America because \u201cfree\u201d society continues to make formerly incarcerated people pay. Hence, we owe them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":55628,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"single-fullwidth.php","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"footnotes":"","_tec_slr_enabled":"","_tec_slr_layout":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-policy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/helpingourselves.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/free.jpg","ticketed":false,"menu_order":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helpingourselves.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/helpingourselves.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/helpingourselves.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helpingourselves.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helpingourselves.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55626"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/helpingourselves.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56697,"href":"https:\/\/helpingourselves.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55626\/revisions\/56697"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helpingourselves.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helpingourselves.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helpingourselves.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helpingourselves.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}