My recent part-time employment in the apartment industry has highlighted my awareness of the ugly fact that felonious convicts have a bleak prospect of finding either a job or an apartment due to their criminal past.
How can we expect these criminals to mainstream into society if they cannot find employment and housing among regular people? Nothing reinforces failure like feeling alienated from the masses, and being segregated from them in some sort of flophouse ghetto, supported by welfare subsidies.
I know the subject is very complicated with some very reasonable exceptions, but more must be done to help most of these ex-cons reemerge and get to work, leading normal lives, among everyday people. What incentives can we find for them to get jobs? How can we help them find housing?
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