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Interview with Michelle Alexander in TalkingDrugs---"I am mystified why people refer to all the laws authorizing discrimination as "unintended collateral consequences

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

From the interview.... "By the way, I am mystified why people refer to all of the laws authorizing discrimination against drug offenders in employment, housing, and public benefits as ?unintended collateral consequences? of the drug war. ... If you pass ... laws barring drug offenders from public benefits and food stamps, and barring them from public housing, and suspending their drivers licenses, and barring them from hundreds of categories of jobs, the predictable results cannot be described as ?collateral? and ?unintended.? If you legalize discrimination in housing, don?t act surprised that people can?t find a place to live. The fact academics and policymakers describe so many forms of discrimination against drug felons as accidental by-products of the drug war is a revealing indicator of how deep our denial has become...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on June 11, 2010 (boomark / email).