Help a felon find employment
July 27, 2006 | Filed Under learning from failure, Practical tips, hard labour, Money making as young
Interesting question from a woman who wants her brother in law to find work. He is a felon and is having a hard time getting a job:
”This person is 24 years old and is under medical treatment for bipolar disorder and ADD. He is a high school graduate, but has not pursued any vocational training beyond that (this is not a possibility now, either, due to financial constraints and a need to gain employment ASAP to support himself). Previous jobs have included kitchen work in a restaurant, food prep and counter work in a deli/bagel shop, roofing, and warehouse jobs. He has left these jobs due to either conflict with management/coworkers, or a lack of steady hours.
Now, understandably, he’s having tremendous difficulty lining up any kind of work.”
The ask.metafilter community have lots of interesting answers.
Ranging from the unethical, but extremely practical: “The other option is to put “no” to the felony question on employment applications. IANAL but I am almost certain that this is NOT illegal but is simply a civil matter, providing he’s not applying for something like daycare or some sort of licensed trade. The worst that can happen is they do a background check and tell him to get lost. This won’t work for getting a job at IBM of course, but a lot of businesses don’t run checks, particularly small businesses and quite a few entry-level positions. If he starts small, it may not come up later — and even if it does, he has still scored a nice period of employment.”
To more conventional suggestions about going to college or back to kitchen work. It sure is no easy way to solve this, but the man is 24 years old and is ready to make changes to his life. Read the full post here.
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Ex-offenders, their families and friends, please vote to make a difference. We need to vote for the right candidate that will make changes that will improve our lives! And that candidate is Barack Obama, below is an excerpt from his website on key issues he CARES about!
Please reference your states sites on guidelines for felon voting, most of US are able to vote. There’s about 14 million convicted felons in the US, and that’s A LOT OF VOTING POWER!!!
Obama will ban racial profiling by federal law enforcement agencies and provide federal incentives to state and local police departments to prohibit the practice.
Reduce Crime Recidivism by Providing Ex-Offender Support
Obama will provide job training, substance abuse and mental health counseling to ex-offenders, so that they are successfully re-integrated into society. Obama will also create a prison-to-work incentive program to improve ex-offender employment and job retention rates.
Eliminate Sentencing Disparities
Obama believes the disparity between sentencing crack and powder-based cocaine is wrong and should be completely eliminated.
Expand Use of Drug Courts
Obama will give first-time, non-violent offenders a chance to serve their sentence, where appropriate, in the type of drug rehabilitation programs that have proven to work better than a prison term in changing bad behavior.
Please get out and VOTE!!!
http://www.barackobama.com/issues/civilrights/
I am 28 yrs old curentley on parole can’t find any one that will hire me not even wendy’s or mcdonalds, I got into a fight and was charged with agravated assult with a deadly weapon when the only weapon used was my knowledge of self defence. I would love to vote seeing that i was not in the united states only two month’s before i was given a reputation as a volent individual, I suposse this would have some thing to do with a mental health status as being diagnosed with an intelect disororder and schizoaffective disorder. his nation really does care about somebody write me back at stroupn@yahoo.com
I am 30 years old and i cant seem to find a job no where and it seems that no one wants to give me a second chance at life so that i can take care of my family.Its hard out here when you have a felony and people cant seem to look past that they think one mistake make you a bad person when you know your not is it anybody out here that will give some one like me a second chance at life.
I am 24 years old and I also have Felony. I had my felony for 4 years now and I haven’t gotten into trouble since. but yet I can’t find a job anywhere. This is ridiculous, every employer acts as if I killed somebody. All I want is to live a successful life and retire. What the system fails to understand is by not given people a chance back into society all they are doing is raising the crime rate.