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Question

Why doe's society, People, Employee's, etc.....
Continue to hold a felony record against Men & Women "AFTER" your debts have been paid to society, Your rights restored & no existing affiliations exist w/the law.
If one has been rehabilitated & placed back into society, Why is it that his or her past may still be held against them?

Answer 1

Sadly, there are certain people who just aren't so easily "rehabilitated" and yet, they are placed back into society because we can't keep EVERYONE locked up forever.

With certain crimes, the safety of others must trump the privacy and privileges of a criminal.

Answer 2

Because while people as individuals are usually not that judgemental on a first time basis, society as a whole is not much more than an easily led herd of sheep. What the media and our political and religious leaders tell us, we believe. Most people if given the chance to know you will understand that you made a mistake in life, and if you performed your sentence to the letter and have not/did not commit another crime, they may well be convinced that one bad act does not make a bad person. But if you throw into the mix all of the time spent on news stories and trash news like 20-20 and their ilk building up how every person that ever committed a crime is a worthless sonofabitch, then society as a whole will condemn you til the day you die. I am going through the same **** right now. All I can say is welcome back to the world, stay right, stay straight, work hard, and good luck.

Answer 3

Because more often than not, the person has not actually been rehabilitated. Otherwise, the term "repeat offender" would not exist in our vocabulary. Unfortunately, those who are genuinely rehabilitated and are prepared to re-enter society as an honest, law-abiding citizen, the deeds of those aforementioned are the culprit, not the people unwilling to trust. Trust is something that must be earned. It is sad that a person in such a situation as you have described is punished for the deeds of others, but people are generally disinclined to trust someone with a criminal background. After all, "honest criminal" is an oxymoron.

Answer 4

Some, but not all, crimes arise out of an addictive nature. There is a hesitancy to trust an addict in any context. Crimes of a sexual nature, especially those involving a minor, are a good example. This is why child molesters have their information listed long after they've fully complied with the law.

Answer 5

Because the recidivism rate is very high. People who commit crimes are likely to do it again, especially after they have been to prison. Prison doesn't rehabilitate, it punishes. People go and they come out with even worse attitudes toward society than when they went in. Certain crimes are especially dangerous, such as fraud or financial crimes or sex offenses, that you really don't want such persons near your money or your kids. Or self.

Answer 6

mostly due to the fact that once you commit a felony you (willingly or unwillingly) give up your a lot of your rights this is also why someone can't vote after they've been convicted of a felony.

I agree it sucks for the most part sometimes good people get caught up in bad sh1t, but a lot of people are naturally bad to the bone and I think some measures are correct to genuinely bad people out of our society but the ones that suffer are the good people that make bad mistakes and all they wanna do is get on with their life and be a productive member of society

if you're the one going through this keep your head up, keep your nose out of trouble do your best to live a clean life , work hard and people will notice what you're doing with yourself sooner or later and it will pay off, unlike he streets where you can get ahead in life very fast, the real work requires you to pay your dues and work hard for longer periods of time, if you're willing to put in the work again it will pay off for you sooner or later.

good luck.

Answer 7

It's the "track record" mentality. I'm sure you've heard, or have heard of, school officials saying things like" This will go on your permanent record". People are conditioned to gauge the future using the past. I don't get it. Statistically, I would guess that it just dont fly.

Answer 8

The thing is that those who know you probably had faith in you innocence to begin with, or doubt that you could possibly do your crime. Found guilty casts the doubt of whether or not they really knew you or what would've been 'Better Judgement'. Trust is so important within relationships of all nature and because so many inmates re offend it is safer to not trust then it is to forgive and forget.

Answer 9

I can sorta answer that as a religious point of view.

I'll try to break this down as simple as possible.

When we SIN it dosen't keep records, but can you disagree that if someone SINS it's done and over with? To answer that is a no.
Cause and Effect. Can be as simple as one lie.

I do believe however that people can change. For those that have seen the errors of their ways , it is not fair to them. But for the people that have had these misfurtunes in life, it may not be fair to you, but you can teach others not to follow in your footsteps. While you may get fustrated as people will not listen, at least turn the negative into a positive. Reach out to people, Write a book, volonteer at a youth group, let others know if you do bad bad will follow you, through out life.

As I see it people look at only the negative, but in every situation there is a cause and effect, it's how you look at it. I have seen many people that where cold blooded killers who has changed there ways and go door to door telling people of what and how they did , and has group meetings as in a church thing but not really talking about god all that much.

People need to speak up.

It's unfortuniate this has happen to you, but we all have things that will haunt us through out our lives as well. You need to take that rejection and show people yes THAT WAS me, but I have changed. I too fall in I sit back and wait for things to happen, when i know it is me who needs to get up and put forth some effort. Life is constantly moving, it's up to all of us to either sit and wait or get out and speak up. Don't be the ones who let people judge you, go out and make them see the real you. The past can be a haunted place, but got to work to redeem ourselves.

If it's about a job, you may have to find something that you don't like, but sometimes we have to go to the bottom to work our way up to the top. Sounds simple I know , but society as of now, seems to be an unforgiven one.

Best advice I can give, is ask questions , learn to do right at an early age, advoid anything your not sure about as in am I going to get into trouble or is this illegal, 9 out 0f 10 times most people do things out of not knowing or just plain stupidity. In the end who do you have to blame? Yourself, and yourself only. Life is cruel, and so are some answers you may recieve. Just learn everything you can... and one day maybe not 10 years from now, you will know who you are, and what your about, and really if no one listens your not to blame. it's the ignorance of the ones you have tried to teach. We are all sponges either we choose to absorb, or we choose to just absorb a little, and think we all got the answers. Knowledge is the key to anything in life.

Answer 10

because once you have committed a felony, you have proven that you are capable of it, and may be capable of it again. while it may not be fair that you are regarded with suspicion, that's just human nature, and you can't blame anyone. it will probably take a long time of good behavior to restore people's belief in you.