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It should also be known, before employment, whether the applicant is an ex con, so the employer can make an Informed decision regarding hiring.
Well, in that case, I need you to think about something. If an ex-convict cannot get work, how does said convict survive outside of prison? This is something we have to think about. Yes, if you do the crime , you do the time. I'm in favor of punishing criminals. However, unless murder, treason, or rape was involved(in some cases), you can't keep a convict in prison forever. Said person will eventually have to come out of prison. Said person will eventually be released back into society. They have to survive somehow. Working is the way to do that. I found that alot of criminals go back to crime because they don't have jobs. Part of the recidivism is the inability to survive outside of prison.
How about actually offering rehabilitation and health restoration instead of archaic "punishment," along with poor nutrition and sub-standard living conditions?
Prison-for-profit. Better for the jailers if you are punished instead of reformed. I always though it was criminal to create a system where there are two sets of rules, (1) prison rules, and (2) inmate rules; these being diametrically opposed - and then punish prisoners for doing whatever they have to do in order to survive in there.
Every employer should do criminal background checks. Knowledge is power. Know who you are working around.
Not true, you can have a policy of not hiring felons and end up with a rapist or thief, the only thing you figured out from the background check is that they weren't caught and convicted before you hired them.
Criminal record checks make sense for certain jobs, i.e. teachers, nurses, people working with large amounts of cash but there is no benefit to anyone to exclude a guy who stole a car from a job as a laborer, or exclude someone who wrote bad checks from working as a prep cook.
Not true, you can have a policy of not hiring felons and end up with a rapist or thief, the only thing you figured out from the background check is that they weren't caught and convicted before you hired them.
Criminal record checks make sense for certain jobs, i.e. teachers, nurses, people working with large amounts of cash but there is no benefit to anyone to exclude a guy who stole a car from a job as a laborer, or exclude someone who wrote bad checks from working as a prep cook.
Unless the crime was violent rape or murder employers have no business knowing your record.
Prison-for-profit. Better for the jailers if you are punished instead of reformed. I always though it was criminal to create a system where there are two sets of rules, (1) prison rules, and (2) inmate rules; these being diametrically opposed - and then punish prisoners for doing whatever they have to do in order to survive in there.
yep..the first inmate rule when you get to prison is to decide what car you will ride in (which gang you will affiliate with) but once you join a prison gang you have violated a prison rule and at least in California until very recently gang affiliation could send you to Pelican Bay for 15 or 20 years in solitary confinement where you spend one hour a day outside in the equivalent of a dog cage
Unless the crime was violent rape or murder employers have no business knowing your record.
I don't quite agree. I don't think we should have people with a history of drug offenses working in hospitals, and I don't think child molesters should be working around kids. And I doubt that it would be a good idea to hire a serial burglar to install alarm systems. It just depends..but this idea that a person should be denied a job just on the basis of "any" criminal conviction is nuts.
Unless the crime was violent rape or murder employers have no business knowing your record.
What if the crime was theft from the previous employer?
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