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The Divide: American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap Highlight

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that’s what the new policy was turning out to be: For the small subset of offenders who are guilty of truly systemic, transformative, organized crime, for offenders to whom losing a big case could be politically embarrassing, let’s carefully consider the collateral consequences of criminal prosecution. But for everybody else, let’s ignore them more than ever before.

— Matt Taibbi and Molly Crabapple

Replicated under Fair Use from The Divide: American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap by Matt Taibbi and Molly Crabapple. (Pg. 52)