Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20120204:21:55:00
A permanent second-class status for life. you may be stripped to the right to vote. you're deemed ineligible for jury service the rest of your life and legally discriminated against in employment, housing, access to education, public benefits. you can be denied even food stamps if you're a drug felon in many states. many people, i think, have this general sense, yes, when you get out of prison, life is hard but, you know but if you apply a certain measure of self-discipline and pull yourself up by your boot straps, you can make it, but the reality is that for the rest of your life, you've got ...