I would like to know if anyone has identified discrimination of post convicted people as a major factor to high unemployment in your communities and what have your communites done to eliviate this problem.
My view is, if people are not able to get jobs because of their convictions they will be roaming the streets broke while we are at work, and they will still be in the community.
They will still be our neighbors even if we allow apartments to discriminate against giving them housing they will still live in the apartments with someone else.
I feel the solution is to make it against the law for them to be discriminated against by employers where there is no conflict of interst relating to their crime and the jobs and also make it illegal for any housing community that rents to the general public to discriminate based on ta prior conviction when the person is no threat to the community.
If someone else has a suggestion please give me some guidiance to help me find a solution for the heads of these families I serve.
How do I have a bill proposed for this at the federal level, if we are really talking about re entry these people cannot possibly re enter when they cannot find a place to live and assume their parental roles as adults. If we won't give them a chance to really be free after they have given everything that was required of their sentences, we should not continue to punish them life is hard enough and they never finish their sentence it becomes a life sentence to them.
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