Why are people convicted of felonies discriminated against so in the united states?

Question

I have been convicted of a felony and I am willing to work but I am discriminated against everytime I go fill out an application because of my criminal background and I want to know why I am being discriminated against, because it is said that once you are released from prison you have paid your debt to society. I am still paying for my convictions to this day it is very difficult to find a job but yet I still move forward so what do I do.

Answer 1

I know exactly what you are saying. I have gone through the same thing. It is probably a little easier for me being a female but you just have to keep looking. Look into getting into college. You almost have to prove yourself to society after commiting a crime as a felony. I am still paying for mine in many ways but you just have to look past that and keep going...everyone expects you to fail so try harder...not for them but for yourself.
I have done jobs that I never imagined I would do. I am now a construction worker but I also attend college full time (schools don't discriminate)
Just keep your head up and keep trying :) The best of luck to you!

Answer 2

As so many have already answered this, what I'll add is this, try going to an employment service. IF you have skills that are in need, they may hire you, and put you in a place that might not otherwise take you on, because of your felony conviction.

Your only other option would be to see if you can get a waiver from the US military. But that would depend on several conditions. Assuming you're willing to join the military, and are at least young enough to join. The rest will depend on what charge(s) you were convicted of.

Answer 3

We hired a couple felons, one tried to stab an employee, another put pictures of female employees on the internet, and yet another stole a bunch of money. Honestly we don't discriminate, but would you continually let someone handle your livelyhood if the people you worked with were regularly being harmed? We still hire people with felony convictions, but we can't keep someone violent or let someone who has been involved in the theft of someone's credit card be involved with our payments.

Its sad you feel your being discriminated against, but just because they don't hire you doesn't mean its because of your record. I have five years of experience in my field and a list of references a mile long and I sometimes don't get the job. Sometimes I never even get a callback. Should I feel discriminated against? I don't, because the employment prospects are not good right now, and probably wont be for awhile.

Answer 4

You need to look at this from the statistics perspective to really understand. Many, many people who commit felonies go on to commit them again even after some level of rehab and good behavior. Who wants to take a risk on hiring someone who could for instance go psycho and shoot people at their office, or - who would want to hire someone who was once convicted for rape if there are women in their office they want to protect? You made a big mistake whatever you did and while there is forgiveness - this is one of the consequences of your actions that you'll have to accept - sometimes - people should be and need to be discriminatory. Geez, we're taking this whole discrimination thing too far don't you think? I mean - we're discriminating against Ivory soap when we buy Zest and no one is in an uproar! You could call anything a form of negative discrimination. but in this case you're just paying the consequences for your actions.

Answer 5

a felony conviction shows that you have no problem with breaking a major law in our society. your "debt to society" isn't paid just because you sat in prison for a while. the victims of what ever your crime was will live with what you did to them for years, so why should you feel like society should just forgive you? as for getting a job, employers have at their reach any number of qualified and lawabiding applicants. as a small business owner, i would think twice before hiring a convicted felon. i might actually consider it depending on what the conviction was for, but if you stole from someone once, do i take a cjance that you'll steal from me? if you injured someone once, do i take a chance you'll hurt me, a fellow employee or a customer? and i would NOT give a rapist, child abuser or someone convicted of a crime while intoxicated the honor of even considering them.
on the flip side, there are people who bend over backwards to "help" you people. my nephew spent years in prison for trying to kill his baby son, got out, got help finding a job, got state paid training to get licenses he needed, got help with housing... the little felon got more help than my own law abiding, respectable disabled son has ever gotten.
quit whining- you made your own problems...

Answer 6

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Answer 7

Not to be rude, but you are a screw up and no one trusts you. You may have "payed your debt", but that doesnt mean anything to the guy who has to hire someone who not only stole or whatever, but was foolish enough to get caught. I hate to say it, but there are millions of people out there that are just as qualified as you and dont have any record, and they are looking for work too.

Answer 8

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