Aside from individuals who have actually been convicted of a crime, the tens of millions of Americans who have been arrested without ever having been convicted of a crime are no exception to this form of legalized discrimination as the same constraints applied to convicted criminals are unfairly applied to them too (Alessandro 145). When it comes to criminal discrimination, the severity of the crime does not matter. Public housing policies deny eligibility to people who have even minor criminal records. Since people of color such as African Americans and Hispanics are the prime targets of police in the war on drugs, they are much more likely to be arrested for minor, nonviolent crimes than white people (Alexander 145). Instead of stating that racial discrimination is non-existent in today's society, Michelle Alexander argues that racial discrimination has simply been extended to occur through subliminal color-blind discriminatory practices (Alexander 11). The criminal justice system still targets racial minorities and deprives them of basic human rights by allowing legalized discrimination, such as the discrimination that exists in public housing seen from the use of racially restrictive covenants in the past and laws