"I think my thing is I grew up in the ghetto, and I was able to get a second chance. That's what I'm trying to tell kids."

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Middle-class white children, children of privilege, are afforded the opportunity to make a lot of mistakes and still go on to college, still dream big dreams. But for kids who are born in the ghetto in the era of mass incarceration, the system is designed in such a way that it traps them, often for life.

— Michelle Alexander