What are the challenges ex-convicts are facing?

Question

Can anyonw tell me what are the challenges they are facing after being released from prison

Answer 1

Employment is a big one...most states have all ex-offenders on file that is open to the public, any employer with a name and social security number (as on a job application) can look up that person and see every arrest, charge and conviction that they've ever had, even if later acquitted, the information is still there. Additionally, most states don't allow someone who has ever been convicted of even the most minor of felonies to work around children or in licensed professions....no teaching, bus driving, electrical, plumbing, HVAC, finance, real estate...the list goes on. Pretty much, they are condemned to manual labor jobs or self employment regardless of their education.
On top of every thing else, many states have "After Former" laws...so a person who was convicted of a felony and served their time, commits a minor infraction of the law that would be a misdemeanor for anyone else, has the statute "After Former Conviction of a Felony" tacked on and the charge is boosted up to a felony and they go back to the joint for something as minor as obscene language in public or jaywalking.

Something as simple as possession of Marijuana can really screw up a persons life...throw into the mix, the extreme pressure on prosecutors to 'rack up the score' of convictions and you end up with a prison system chock full of people that really aren't much different in values, lifestyle, or principles than many of your relatives.

Also, many states, like Oklahoma, have passed laws that grant the employer the right to refuse work/fire an otherwise fully qualified prospective employee because of a felony (or arrest). Without any other reason or condition and whether they are just applying or have worked for the firm for 50 years and are about to retire.

Answer 2

extremely some it relies upon on how long they have been locked up. in case you have been locked up six months, the only readjusting is attempting to discover a activity in spite of if the detention center has a software that assists offenders that are in seek of for employment; consequently, they have a activity while they are released. in case you have been locked up for say 30 years, basically think of roughly how lots issues have replaced. they did no longer have iPods then, they had checklist gamers and eight tracks. no longer basically are they attempting to regulate to the stepped forward technologies yet look at how the attitudes of folk have differences too.

Answer 3

The major challenge is the law that allows employers to ask if you have ever been in prison.

Answer 4

Reintegrating back into the community due to lack of social acceptance and lack of trust exhibited by non ex-convict members of the community

Answer 5

- Difficulty in obtaining gainful employment
- Terms of probation or parole
- Disenfranchisment (Not being able to vote)
- Society's views on ex-convicts
- Unable to legally possess firearm
- Lack of rehabilitation in the correctional facility, leading to recidivism

Answer 6

Not being able to get a good job, being treated like a crimminal by their neighbors, having trouble borrowing money...etc. Pedophiles have it twice as hard btw, which, incidentally, doesn't bother me in least (for pedophiles).

Answer 7

no money, nowhere to live, no job, society unable to give them a 2nd chance