
Judge Victoria Pratt’s “The Power of Dignity”
Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts
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The Justice System Is Not Just Predatory
The most vulnerable in the community routinely received quality of life tickets for having the audacity to exist when they could not afford housing. It's as though this predatoryand will talk about the sort of actually monotizing poverty because it's a part of this system. But you just become the person who just keeps tagging people for that. And that's not, as you describe it, anything close to justice. The public is my home. Instead of addressin the social ill, which is my homelessness, city council legislators have decided to criminalize it and not address it.
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