Prisoners re-enter society

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Originally Posted by Kevin

Poverty doesn't lead to them committing crimes. Them being criminal douchebags leads to them committing crimes.

I don't feel the least bit sorry for a criminal who goes to prison who has a tough life thereafter. As an employer, I have the right and maybe even a duty to be informed as to whether my employees are violent felons or people who are likely to steal money from me.

Typically, if someone is in prison, it's only because they got caught. They likely committed quite a few other crimes for which they were not caught. Being an ex-con shouldn't give you any special rights or free money. Karma is a bitch.

There are plenty of ex-cons who choose to be gainfully employed law abiding citizens. Life is about choices. Don't make dumb choices.

Correct, poverty doesn't cause crime because that would mean that everyone in poverty was criminal. It is, however, a correlate for certain types of offenses and increases the likelihood of offending for these offenses if other conditions are present.

It isn't really about the ex-prisoner's "choice" to be employed. It is more about the choice of the employers to hire ex-prisoners. Considering the structure of the penal system, the average parolee (one who isn't in love with being incarcerated) would much rather have a job and family to turn to rather than go back to prison.

Considering the structure of our penal system, it isn't just about "criminal douchebags," either. There are a lot of low level and nonviolent offenders whose offenses would not have resulted in incarceration had they not been poor and without legal representation.

Main point: Tax payers and concerned citizens can pay now or pay later. But we WILL pay. Pay in a literal and/or figurative sense.