Thanks for posting the link. It looks like a ridiculous case that clearly needs fixed. Completely agree our prison system is not working well. My problem is th

Thanks for posting the link. It looks like a ridiculous case that clearly needs fixed. Completely agree our prison system is not working well. My problem is the older I get the more complicated I realize everything is. It's easy to see flaws but fixes are overwhelmingly complicated. I think it's stupid (and bad for society) to ban someone from some employment based on an unrelated crime. It drives down supply of employees, which should trigger increases in pay. Like you said, this law is a band-aid; it doesn't fix the problem (restricted employment) and it side-steps the natural counter to the problem (increasing salaries). Why not fix whatever says firefighters can't have criminal records? Why aren't normal economic pressures sufficient? I also don't want to disregard criminal records completely, e.g. I wouldn't ever want to hire Bernie Madoff as an investment advisor (even if he were still alive). For me it's an issue of whether the crime is relevant and that's really hard to say sometimes.