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Still, a lack of leadership and a persistent culture of criminalization within public schools have the city suspending, expelling, and arresting students too often and in discriminatory fashion.
And it is essential to center the leadership and experiences of LGBTQ people-and specifically LGBTQ youth, people of color and low-income people-directly impacted by criminalization within larger efforts to radically re-envision safety and justice for all members of our communities.
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Spouses, children, roots in the community, ability to contribute to the U.S.'s welfare in small or large ways, record of accomplishment, moral character, inability to live elsewhere than the U.S., none of these are part of the Sensenbrenner/Schumer criminalization calculus (Either register within x amount of time, or you are automatically deportable).
But advocates say the case highlights a larger problem within the American criminal justice system: the prevalence of a widespread body of HIV criminalization laws, which use medically outdated criminal law to stigmatize people living with the virus.
A zealous advocate for reproductive and sexual rights, Olajuawon-Wilson also speaks regularly about HIV criminalization, vulnerability, critical love ethics and access to power within and across racial formations.
Due to widespread stigma and cultural incompetency within the health-care system, fueled by criminalization of sex work, and the fact that even many providers don't know what PrEP is or how to prescribe it, this potential miracle drug is not reaching the people who may need it most.
Using an organizing method that WRAP members have developed and polished on the streets of cities on the West Coast, they were able to procure good information, and, far more importantly, begin important conversations within our communities about the real nature of criminalization and its impacts.
But the less heralded feature of the bill is the change it brings to the criminal justice system a testament to the legacy of pot criminalization at a time when, despite some old-school holdouts in the federal government, mainstream social acceptance seems within reach.
The pre-Roe criminalization of abortion?
The pre-Stonewall criminalization of homosexuality?
So criminalization is a very worrying trend".
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