I see that now: > In New York City, construction industry employers recruit recently released prisoners who must seek and maintain employment as a condition of

I see that now: > In New York City, construction industry employers recruit recently released prisoners who must seek and maintain employment as a condition of their release from prison. Why can't an ex-con go bum off their family? Or become a mendicant holy man? Or become a novelist, who in 9/10 cases is just unemployed, but in 1/10 earns money off "My Life in Lockup: The Joe Blow Story" (popular in the prison library)? We should be making formal employment less necessary, not more.