Im a criminal

in the article Im a criminal and so are you  talks about how there are a lot of reasons people go to jail everyday all around the world. so now that they are labeled as a criminal they don't have all their rights, such as to vote. its like your put aside from everything and everybody else. you might not be able to get a job, get access to education and other sorts of things. adding to that it says that everyone is a criminal in their own way. she states that you don't have to look like a criminal to be one. the differences between the people in jail and the people outside of jail is that they didn't get caught doing what they did. and because of that people often think that they didn't do anything wrong. Michelle Alexander says that the color, age, or gender doesn't even matter, but people think it happens in the ghettos mainly. she thinks it should be  aware that a lot of people did something that they shouldn't have did or broke they law at some point and time in their life. i think in some situations you shouldn't be punished as much. you should't be know and still have rights just like everybody else thats not a criminal. if you committed a crime such a robbery you should get punished because something like that is not needed. it you get caught driving while you are drunk, them it should not be that you have to a lot of time in jail for something little like that. people do it very often, they just don't get caught doing it.