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If you're a felon, then you're essentially prevented from earning a living.

• sokoloff 10y ago
  How so? They're prohibited from possessing firearms, so they're not suited for armed security, but there's nothing structural preventing them from earning a living. Plenty of companies will hire felons, just not all of them.
  • astrodust 10y ago
    In practice "plenty" translates to "almost none" and those that do tend to abuse their employees since there's very few repercussions. Simply being unemployed for an extended period of time is enough to exclude you from many jobs. Being a felon and having done jail time excludes you even more severely.
    • tracker1 10y ago
      "I was operating a sole-proprietorship business from 1998 to 2012."
      • astrodust 10y ago
        That can work for a case of simple unemployment if you can make it sound plausible, but if you can't come up with a single client reference from that period of time you could be pooched. This is also complicated by the fact that you may have no option to admit that you're a felon and served time since they may have your police report on their desk. We're living in an era where having nothing more than an arrest record, even if no charges were ever filed, is grounds for suspicion. It doesn't even matter if you were someone walking their dog and rounded up by the police in some kind of illegal kettling, you have a record.
• driverdan 10y ago
  Felon here. I haven't had trouble finding work. I have highly desirable skills though so I recognize it's much harder for others.
• st3v3r 10y ago
  Sure, but that's not another entity doing it, that's due to your own actions.