Criminal

In this article Michelle Alexander states that everyone is a criminal and that people who actually got caught commiting a crime get treated a different way than people who didn't get caught. She says "If everyone were forced to acknowledge their own criminality, maybe we, as a nation, would second-guess our apparent zeal for denying full citizenship to those branded felons." She that people who are labeled as criminals get treated bad and can't get their full rights back. Some can't vote, get jobs or even get in college. She gives an example and says that Obama admitted that he did illegal drugs in the past and isn't judged as a criminal because he hasn't went to jail for it but others are judged as a criminal because they got caught for it.

I think that she is right, people should have rights to do things after they get out of jail but i think it should be determined on what they did and how severe there crime was. For example if you still a shirt or maybe even driving drunk and you get caught they will send you to jail and judge you as a criminal and you maybe will not get your rights back but you should. As to if you rob a bank or kill someone you  should get some of your rights taken from you and should be labeled as a criminal. There are people who still candy from a store and there are people who robbed a bank and still get away with it, they are still criminals because what they did was against the law. There should be a scale or way to take the amount of rights from someone for the certain crime they did.