[QUOTE="Alter_Echo"][QUOTE="luisen123"][QUOTE="Alter_Echo"]
No. The way our injustice system is setup, having a criminal history is punishment enough. Getting a loan? Background check. Getting a job? Background check. Guess what type of person fails both of those.....
I find it hilarious how you can break the law here in the US, serve your punishment, pay restitution and then be discriminated against for the rest of your life based on a charge that may be ****ing years and years old even with nothing before or since.
Get caught with drugs, serve jail time, pay fines, court costs, probation oh and also forget the notion of ever getting a respectable job EVER in the future because a life of forced poverty due to it is completely fair.
This is coming from someone who got one of those "We regret to inform you" letters from a prospective employer when i have ONE criminal charge my entire life which was over a decade ago and has absolutely NOTHING to do with the type of job i was applying for.
I mean ****. If i was scraping by and did not already have a decent job what would i do now? Rob a bank? Knock over a liqour store? How many people have broken the law AGAIN out of necessity after being disallowed a normal life by the system?
rant rant rant. Don't even remember what i was talking about but spent too much time on it to delete.
You shouldn't have broken the law in the first place.If you think something like that is justified i really don't know what else to say to you about it. Either what the person did was bad enough to serve life in prison or it wasn't and they are set free and ALLOWED to at least TRY to have a prosperous life outside.
It's like releasing someone from jail after 10 years and then not sealing his record pending a probationary period. Why bother releasing them at all? They wont be able to get a job worth a **** which leads to no money which leads to them more than likely doing the same **** they did the first time which puts them back in prison.
Why would you want to eject people out into society and then GIVE them reasons to break the law again? There needs to be better legislation at least. Why a petty charge like mine stays on there just as long as murder or rape is mind boggling.
I gotta agree with Alter_Echo here. The way ex-cons are treated in America ensures many of them will wind up back in prison again. Think about: If you reform a drug dealer into a respectable person but then deny him any livelihood other than dead-end, degrading minimum wage work, do you think he's going to opt to live in poverty his whole life or do you think that he'll decide to go back to selling drugs? And keep in mind that thanks to how our prisons are run, said ex-drug dealer is likely to have actually REFINED his criminal skills while in prison, in addition to making a ton of new contacts. It gets even worse with sex offenders. Not only do they run into the same issues as any other ex-con, but they also get actively harrassed by society. And thanks to rules like "you can't live within 200 meters of a bus stop, playground, park, school, church, library, chuckie cheese, etc." there's virtually nowhere they can legally live, meaning they usually wind up homeless. Unfortunately for society, homeless people tend to be extraordinarily difficult to keep track of (especially if they remove that ankle tracker) which is why you hear about so many sex offenders "falling through the system". It has nothing to do with incompetent probation officers, a lack of funding, or laws not be strict enough, and everything to do with people being forced to live off the grid. The root of most problems with crime rates in Amercia are, ironically, Americans' extremely vindicitive attitudes towards criminals. 
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