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Dante Bristow
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Dante Bristow
Dante Bristow, 23, was raised by a single mother in Wichita, Kansas. As a child, he remembers his household would start to run out of food toward the end of the month, when the assistance money had been used up, and he’d go hungry. When he was 13, he and a few friends got caught trying to steal food from a store. It was his first encounter with the juvenile justice system, but it touched off a cycle that continued for years as he and his family struggled to pay the costly court debts.
“I was young, I couldn't pay for my ankle monitor. I went to jail, because I couldn't pay for my ankle monitor. And then they let me back out again on my ankle monitor that I couldn't pay for.”
Dante Bristow
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