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Luxury To Forget

One in four people in the US has a criminal record; four in four have a criminal history. These are the stories of people who ‘got away with it.’ Doctors, lawyers, professors, students, police, and policymakers consider how life would be different had they been caught while examining race and class privilege.

Engineering Student: FALSE IDENTIFICATION; POSSESSION AND SALE OF CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES 
13 Dec 2016

Engineering Student: FALSE IDENTIFICATION; POSSESSION AND SALE OF CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES 

by Emily Baxter | posted in: College Days, Drunk + High, Luxury To Forget | 0

I know I’ve got white privilege. Being white gives me extraordinary power here. Just be careful, the cops tell me. Go home. 

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MECHANICAL ENGINEER: FRAUD, DISTRIBUTION AND POSSESSION OF CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES, ASSAULT, BURGLARY
13 Dec 2016

MECHANICAL ENGINEER: FRAUD, DISTRIBUTION AND POSSESSION OF CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES, ASSAULT, BURGLARY

by Emily Baxter | posted in: Drunk + High, Luxury To Forget, No Record, The Color of Crime | 0

This could go in any direction. Where do you want to start?

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Doctor’s Assistant: THEFT
4 Aug 2016

Doctor’s Assistant: THEFT

by Emily Baxter | posted in: Luxury To Forget, Uncategorized | 0

Back in the day, we thought no one could touch us. We were just kids—what could any one do to us?

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Marketing Manager and Attorney: Possession and Sale of Controlled Substances
4 Aug 2016

Marketing Manager and Attorney: Possession and Sale of Controlled Substances

by Emily Baxter | posted in: College Days, Drunk + High, Luxury To Forget | 0

I could have had a felony on my record for something that I wasn’t going to be doing in my twenties anyway.

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Jail staff: Possession of Controlled Substances
23 Jul 2016

Jail staff: Possession of Controlled Substances

by Emily Baxter | posted in: College Days, Drunk + High, Luxury To Forget, No Record | 0

Then there I was, on one side of the bars for doing something a lot of guys on the other side had gotten caught for.

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Retail salesperson: Indecent Exposure, Possession of Counterfeit Goods
23 Nov 2014

Retail salesperson: Indecent Exposure, Possession of Counterfeit Goods

by admin | posted in: Luxury To Forget, Teenage Years, Uncategorized | 0

I consider myself a pretty open person, but when I heard about this project, I thought, how dare they say that? I purposefully don’t do anything wrong.

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Student: Sale and Possession of Controlled Substances
3 Jun 2014

Student: Sale and Possession of Controlled Substances

by admin | posted in: College Days, Luxury To Forget, No Record | 0

I’m not really in the demographic associated with dealers, and my customers were people I wouldn’t have interacted with normally: footballers and frat bros.

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Research scientist: Theft
20 Jan 2014

Research scientist: Theft

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

I don’t really think of them as crimes, though.

I mean, really. Do people get convicted for stuff like this?

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Program developer: Theft, Indecent Exposure, Minor Consumption, False Identification, Possession of Marijuana
20 Jan 2014

Program developer: Theft, Indecent Exposure, Minor Consumption, False Identification, Possession of Marijuana

by admin | posted in: College Days, Drunk + High, Luxury To Forget | 0

I’m having trouble remembering things that I did that were illegal, I just don’t think about it.

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Student: Aggravated Robbery
9 Jan 2014

Student: Aggravated Robbery

by admin | posted in: Luxury To Forget, No Record, Teenage Years | 0

I just wish I had made a different decision.

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Federal officer: Aiding and Abetting Sale of Controlled Substances
3 Jan 2014

Federal officer: Aiding and Abetting Sale of Controlled Substances

by admin | posted in: College Days, Luxury To Forget, No Record, Teenage Years | 0

Ironically – eighty percent of my caseload was drug dealers.

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Engineer: Open Bottle, Petty Theft
1 Jan 2014

Engineer: Open Bottle, Petty Theft

by admin | posted in: College Days, Luxury To Forget, No Record | 0

They were just too tempting

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