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Living With Conviction: Sentenced to Debt for Life in Washington State » Espinosa_Deborah_19_

"It's disheartening. It's not allowing people to live their present without being defined by their past. . . . I'm not the same person I was when I was convicted. I haven't been that person for a long time. But the way things are currently, I can't ever foresee being completely out from underneath that stigma or that thumb of owing for something I did. I paid my debt to society. What happened to that? I pay my debt, I can't get housing. I can't get jobs. I’m discriminated against because of the stigma attached to being a convict. I've made all these other positive changes and I want to pay these off. I want to be out from underneath all of my past.. . . I can't be a changed person because I'm poor?" Kyrrah Nork of Seattle.

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