In the theater of policy and power, the citizen is often the cheapest prop.
You follow the rules. You serve your time. You try to rebuild. But the system doesn’t forget—and it doesn’t forgive. It brands you, boxes you, and balances your life against its metrics of efficiency and control.
You’re not a person. You’re a statistic in someone’s risk report. A name on a list. Collateral in the grand machinery of “justice.”
And the worst part? The machine doesn’t even know your name. Just your record.
🩶 Read the cost ledger of the forgotten:
👉 https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/collateral-consequences-and-enduring-nature-punishment
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