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Weighing In

Practitioners, professors, policymakers, people directly affected by the system, and more weigh in on We Are All Criminals and criminal justice reform.

Student, Singer, Changemaker
25 May 2017

Student, Singer, Changemaker

by Emily Baxter | posted in: More Than My Mugshot | 0

You know, every person has a story and reason for them being exactly where they are.

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International Sales: Underage Drinking, Driving While Intoxicated, Public Intoxication, Disorderly Conduct
25 May 2017

International Sales: Underage Drinking, Driving While Intoxicated, Public Intoxication, Disorderly Conduct

by Emily Baxter | posted in: Luxury To Forget, No Record | 0

I’d be unemployable had I been caught.

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LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICER: Driving While Intoxicated
25 May 2017

LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICER: Driving While Intoxicated

by Emily Baxter | posted in: Luxury To Forget, No Record | 0

Your project made me realize that it could have been me. It is difficult to look at yourself in a flawed way, you know?

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Community Builder
25 May 2017

Community Builder

by Emily Baxter | posted in: More Than My Mugshot | 0

  I am more than the worst thing I have ever done; you are more than the worst thing you’ve ever done, too. I was a good student, I was an honor student. One drunken night everything changed. It took … Continued

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Graduate Student: Minor in Possession, Public Intoxication
25 May 2017

Graduate Student: Minor in Possession, Public Intoxication

by Emily Baxter | posted in: Luxury To Forget, No Record, Uncategorized | 0

But really, as quickly as it all happened, it was over.

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Security Guard: Underage Drinking; Driving Under the Influence
25 May 2017

Security Guard: Underage Drinking; Driving Under the Influence

by Emily Baxter | posted in: Luxury To Forget, No Record | 0

It could have had a domino effect, stopping me from being with you here today.

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Marine
25 May 2017

Marine

by Emily Baxter | posted in: More Than My Mugshot | 0

Someday my son’s going to find out, so I work hard every day to make sure that when he sees the whole me, the good outweighs the bad.

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Graduate Student: Burglary
25 May 2017

Graduate Student: Burglary

by Emily Baxter | posted in: Luxury To Forget, No Record | 0

But this was out in the middle of nowhere, so we were unlikely to be caught compared to kids our age doing similar things in the city.

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Social Worker
25 May 2017

Social Worker

by Emily Baxter | posted in: More Than My Mugshot | 0

This label that says you’re not fixable, you’re not salvageable. When does that stop?

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Caretaker
25 May 2017

Caretaker

by Emily Baxter | posted in: More Than My Mugshot | 0

In some ways, I’m disqualified from my own life.

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DEACON and INSURANCE AGENT:  Public Intoxication, Reckless Driving, Disorderly Conduct, Disorderly House, Disrupting the Peace, Unruly Assembly
25 May 2017

DEACON and INSURANCE AGENT: Public Intoxication, Reckless Driving, Disorderly Conduct, Disorderly House, Disrupting the Peace, Unruly Assembly

by Emily Baxter | posted in: Luxury To Forget, No Record | 0

Every job I’ve held since graduation has been licensed, and I’ve never had to worry about my past. That’s not true for so many others: I hear it time and again at different jobs, “We were gonna hire him, but he didn’t pass a background check.”

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Lawyer: Marriage Fraud; Visa Fraud; Making False Statements
25 May 2017

Lawyer: Marriage Fraud; Visa Fraud; Making False Statements

by Emily Baxter | posted in: Luxury To Forget, No Record | 0

I guess I was convincing enough.

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