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Their inability to find employment is a major reason why many of these people reoffend. So, if you want people to stay out of jail and off the entitlements, they have to be able to work.
~ButterBrownBiscuit~
So "for the greater social good" business owners should be prompted to hire criminals? What about the increased risk the business owner takes in doing so? How will he/she be compensated when things go bad - a .67 probability based on an earlier post?
Bleeding hearts will for the most part save this country from itself. And the heartless empty vessels now masquerading as human beings will die out like the dinosaurs.
Let's all hold hands and join in singing "Kumbaya".
Let's all hold hands and join in singing "Kumbaya".
Perfect example of our ingrained distrust of each other and why we are where we are. You are not a part of any solution, you are the problem. Keep rolling your eyes. I hear they fall out if you do it enough.
Looks like the liberals and "progressives" in San Fran are feverishly working in ways where your typical felon now has as much right as any else to apply for jobs. No matter if they raped or killed someone. What's more, if an ex-con somehow feels discriminating against by not getting hired they will have a recourse to sue the business. With this, and the judges and prison deacons giving sexual favors to inmates, being a criminal has never included these many perks in the US.
Why Ex-Con Job Seekers Shouldn't Be Discriminated Against - Yahoo! News (http://news.yahoo.com/why-ex-con-job-seekers-shouldnt-discriminated-against-092711018.html - broken link)
I agree with them regarding victimless crimes, crimes of violence need to be in a different category.
Perfect example of our ingrained distrust of each other and why we are where we are. You are not a part of any solution, you are the problem. Keep rolling your eyes. I hear they fall out if you do it enough.
I don't have an "ingrained distrust" of people in general. Just those who have been convicted of felonies and have lost their trustworthiness. I wouldn't want such an individual to be mandated as working in a business I had worked hard to establish and/or which I depend on for my income/reputation.
it's a strange world where having a poor credit score or being unemployed 'too long' can keep you from getting hired, but having a felony conviction for a violent crime cannot.
*Sigh* More like common sense. IF people reoffend because they can't find a job, obviously increasing their ability to find employment would decrease the recidivisim rate. Would you prefer that we either continue to house them in the prison system (at 20K/per year) or support them on welfare?
~ButterBrownBiscuit~
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So "for the greater social good" business owners should be prompted to hire criminals? What about the increased risk the business owner takes in doing so? How will he/she be compensated when things go bad - a .67 probability based on an earlier post?
I'm a bit curious about those who think felons should be discriminated against because they committed a crime - if that's the case, do you support keeping every felon in jail for life?
It would seem you are opposed to the idea of rehabilitation and felons becoming functioning members of society, so exactly what do you propose?
I don't believe anyone thinks the unemployed or those with poor credit should be discriminated against either.
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it's a strange world where having a poor credit score or being unemployed 'too long' can keep you from getting hired, but having a felony conviction for a violent crime cannot.
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What about the increased risk the business owner takes in doing so? How will he/she be compensated when things go bad - a .67 probability based on an earlier post?
