felony new life?

Question

does anyone know a person who has a felony but has turned their life around and now has a good job or returned to school please give details

Answer 1

It really depends upon your definition of a good job. Some people who get felonies turn there life around before being released and I'm not talking about finding God. Most who do that are just paying lip service to what they think people want them to be like.

It is possible to find employment after prison, but to have a top company take you under their wing might be a difficult request. Most companies don't care if you have turned your life around, to them that black mark means you will always be a bad person.

It would really be nice if society would realize that to judge people for their past mistakes is really a form of discrimination and should be against the law. Of course we don't want child molesters working with children or dope makers working for pharmacutical companies, but beyond those types of limitations even ex-felons should be allowed to make a legal living.

People wonder why the recidivism rate is so high in America. I think it is very clear why, when a person who committed a crime is released and they can't find gainful employment or are discriminated against when they apply for housing or credit, that they would turn back to the things they did to survive in the first place.

And America wonders why their crime rates are so high. Many of our institutions, that deal with people who have committed crimes, are called correctional facilities. What a joke. Most offer nothing in the way of corrections. The ones that are called penal institutions are better named. They are there to penalize not correct.

Answer 2

Yeah, my next door neighbor.

He and his girlfriend moved here last year after Hurricane Katrina. We moved to our apartment in January and they seemed SO nice. We have two young children (toddlers) and always thought these people were really good people...they're great neighbors (no loud parties, no music, no drugs, etc.). We found out by this guy's own admission that he's a convicted felon. In his late teens (he's in his mid 20s now) he shot a guy. Since the guy didn't end up dying, my neighbor was convicted, served jail time, and got out. Since then, he's been clean and straight. He even has three kids, all by the same woman, and he's a good dad. (They live with their mom in Texas, but they were here a few months back, and are great kids.) He pays child support, too.

When I first found this out about him, I was like, "Woah...we have two little kids, what if he freaks out and keeps guns in his house or whatever." I had about a billion things running through my head. Then I realized that what he did was long ago. People do dumb sh*t. He was a punk teenager when this happened, and had no real reason for doing it. He's great with our kids (he loves them to death, and is trying to teach our older son (2 1/2 years) why wearing white t-shirts is good. Not sure what all that's about, but listening to him lecture our son is funny, LOL)

As for a good job...I don't know. He's sort of a back yard mechanic. He does pretty well for himself, from what I can see. He's not doing it full time anymore. He recently got a job at a lumber supply house (similar to Home Depot, but it's a local place) and is doing OK I suppose. He doesn't have his MBA, and raking in six figures a year, but he's a hard worker, and he's good at what he does.

Answer 3

yes, my older brother was convicted of a couple felonies, and i dont want to go into they were... but he was in and out of jail a couple times and this last time he was in for a year, and after he got out he got he wanted decided he never wanted to go back and wanted to have a better life... so he had help through a job placement company for convicted people, got his GED, but didnt really didnt like the job he found at first it was something dealing with construction, but it paid decent and they didnt care too much about his past so he stuck with it... He said it put him on a good schedule and they drug test as part of probabtion so he went to counseling and got clean... then he met a girl who he fell in love with they are now married and have a child, he still works in construction but moved up... he no longer does drugs and has become a completely different person, he is no longer cold and mean but instead smiles all the time... but he did say it was very hard for a long time and you have to really want to change for yourself before anything will work...

Answer 4

yes I do know a person, and yes they did turn their life around...and no I won't go into detail cause that's the past.