Richard Wallace: Formerly incarcerated people will shape Chicago’s election. Let’s listen to them.

A voters cast a ballot as early voting begins for Chicago’s runoff election, March 20, 2023, at the Chicago Board of Elections Loop Super Site.As you think about who will shape this upcoming election, which people will most likely be considered the deciders of Chicago’s future?Do you imagine it is one of the 3.3 million adults who have been arrested or convicted of a crime since 1979? Do you imagine one of the 23,791 people released from jails and prisons in Illinois in 2019? Well, I do.

The city of Chicago is home to 35% of returning citizens released from Illinois state prisons. It’s important to know they will return home to face 1,189 permanent punishment laws and regulations in Illinois, mostly denying people housing, education and employment. For example, many people who fight mass incarceration call for an end to prison labor. Prison labor is a direct extension of chattel slavery, due to an exception clause in the 13th Amendment — a clause that has been understood throughout history to allow slavery to be used as punishment for crime.

Criminals know what is best. I trust them.

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