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When Going Straight Means Going Broke

I make twelve dollars an hour at a job that doesn't care about my record but my old life was making a thousand dollars a day and sometimes the math feels impossible.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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The economic reality of legal work can feel like punishment that extends far beyond any sentence.

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