Tag: privilege

• 23 January 2015
• by: NiaLena Caravasos
• in: Blog
• tag: arrested, attorney, bars, believe, believes, classes, criminal, defense, heroin, justice, lawyers, life, prison, privilege, society, white
• note: 0 Comment

“Heroin addiction sent me to prison. White privilege got me out and to the Ivy League.” This is the provocative headline of a piece in the Washington Post about a senior at Cornell University who was arrested for heroin possession. As an addict (a condition that began during a deep depression), he was muddling his […]