Ex-Convict Employment Barriers

Do you really think preventing people from getting jobs makes them less likely to commit crimes in the future? To me it seems the opposite is much more likely. If people are unable to make an honest living they will be forced to commit crimes to make ends meet.The prison sentence is the punishment for the crime. After people are let out of prison they should be reintegrated into society.

Seems to me he's in the same spot he is now, except materially less employable due to a prison sentence. Do you think your idea here really seems probable to work?

Even if that was his crime it shouldn't prevent him from getting a job. Forcing people to drop out of the labour market massively increases the chance of them committing another crime. Rehabilitation works best if you give people a second chance.

Let's break this down. Someone commits murder, and gets sent to prison for 13 years. They are out now. How do we deal with them?1. If everyone says that they will no longer want to work with such a person, especially rich people, who can enforce that want, that person will end up working with poor people. The rich people are making a classist argument.2. Worse, if that person, cannot even get bad jobs, they will be forced to commit more crimes in order to live. Now, the first crime mi

What will satisfy you then? Should people who come out from prison for stealing sit around jobless since nobody trusts them? That's bound to get them back into prison.

I thought we were all about making it easier for felons to reintegrate into society? ;)

No ex-convict wants to return to prison. However, they've just been put in a position where all of their peers are also criminals, and getting a well-compensated job after release is incredibly difficult, especially if they do not already have specialized skills and education. So it's very easy to fall back into bad habits, especially if that's how they were paying the bills.Destigmatizing a criminal record when it comes to hiring (or anything else for that matter) would help a

We don't want them to re-offend, but we won't give them meaningful work either. Terrible cycle

None of the things you mention would stop someone from re-entering society, in quite a few countries there are rehabilitation programmes in the jails with gradual re-introduction to 'normal' life after longer jail sentences.Yes, this costs money but it helps to reduce recidivism and in general is a good thing to do.

This culture of "never forget, no excuses, no forgiveness" is part of why the US has so many people in prison. Suppose someone commits an armed robbery. They should be arrested, certainly, for many reasons. But after they have been tried, punished, and served their sentence, should they be permanently exiled from society? Should they never be able to find employment for the rest of their life? No, because that doesn't help anyone and just creates more crime. This person is probabl