It\'stime to give rehabilitated ex-offenders a 2nd chance at working a decent job.... PEOPLE DO CHANGE!
PEOPLE MAKE MISTAKES< STRUGGLE WITH ADDICTIONS AND SOME DO CHANGE!
I am petitioning a law to be passed for employers to be mandated to hire a certain percentage of ex-offenders. There are work places that are racially diversified, but what about the people that made mistakes in their life, or suffered from addiction problems causing them to commit crimes. There is no hope for them in today's society. It's really sad because it increases homelessness, and recidivism, causing the cities and states of the US to spend billions of dollars a year housing and supporting ex-offenders that are perfectly capable of working. If a person is rehabilitated from the crime/s they have committed, why can't they get a 2nd shot at life? They paid their dues to society in prisons, rehabs and so on. People do learn from their mistakes, it's just the system that doesn't allow an ex-offender a chance at living a clean, respectable life, so they are forced to go backwards taking penitentiary risks just to support themselves and their families. There are ex-offenders that do a complete turn around, they go to college, earn a degree, and after that, they're left with student loans that they can't pay off because they can't find work. Our economy is not doing so great, and I'm not saying that giving ex-offenders a chance at working a decent job will fix all of our problems, but it will do something. I know it will decrease crime rate, and homelessness. You've got people with a number of misdemeanors that can't get jobs or a professional license helping others not to go the same route they did. And they didn't learn from a book, they learned first hand. Social work and psychology is one way to reach them, however, an ex-offender can not get a license to talk with these kids and tell them the what the path their taking will lead them to. There should be a statute of limitation for criminal background checks. If a person committed a misdemeanor crime 5 to 7 years ago, they should not be discriminated against. Although the employers won't say the criminal record was the reason they didn't get the job, you and I know that is the reason. Do you want to build up our economy, give people a second chance. It seems crazy to me that a nurse can commit a crime and still keep her license, but a person who committed a crime before becoming a nurse wouldn't be granted a licence. And if 1 in a million did recieve their licence, that still doesn't guarantee them a job in the hospital. It is time to give people a second chance, it is time to diversify employment to ex-offenders too.
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