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Adolescence happens on a spectrum, and people who convicted when they were under the age of 26 should receive the same parole opportunities as young people under the age of 18 currently do.

Strip searches are dehumanizing, humiliating, state-sanctioned trauma and sexual violence.

Strip searches are used to embarrass, shame and dehumanize. It's time to end the practice. Reentry is difficult without an ID. Sending people home from prison without an ID is setting them up for failure.

If the state knows a person’s identity well enough to incarcerate them, then the state can give them the proper identification when they leave.

When you can’t rely on stability in your job it makes it impossible to pay bills, plan for childcare, take care of your own health and well-being, and make plans for the future.

As a person, who has had my voting rights restored and exercises my right to vote I believe enfranchisement is an integral way for all Americans to participate in the democracy that governs them.

The right to vote is a fundamental aspect of democracy and a core constitutional right that should never be taken away. However, Connecticut law deprives people of the right to vote when they are in the custody of the Department of Corrections and convicted of a felony.

Connecticut should ban police deception in interrogations of children.

I had made it onto the dean's list several semesters. It was there that I ran into my second barrier.