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This is your free-form essay on the criminal justice system and poverty. Be sure that your essay contains no fewer than one full page of text. Explain how poverty affects access to and quality of representation within the criminal justice system. Identify differences in how laws are created and applied to people experiencing poverty. Challenge preconceived ideas about how poverty and the criminal justice system intersect. You may use any of the articles attached below as reference.