"The bill, which would provide training programs for prisoners with the goal of reducing recidivism rates, easily passed the House in a 360-59 vote."
That's all fair and nice but it won't do any good since companies are all demanding FBI fingerprinting to get jobs these days. And therefore, it won't matter if prisoners obtain a PHD, they still won't get the job!
One might wonder why so many are out of work these days given the fact everywhere one looks there are help wanted signs in the window or on billboard signs.
Well, one of the biggest problems, is that nowadays just about everyone is demanding FBI fingerprinted back ground checks otherwise known as level 2. Many people are boxed in and unable to get a job due to this. Some with only one conviction in their past as far back as fifty years ago which is completely idiotic. How many in society has never committed some type of crime? Just because they weren't caught, doesn't mean they were innocent...it just means they were luckier than the guy handcuffed and dragged off to jail.
And the real travesty is many had plea bargained and agreed to plea guilty in exchange for having their records sealed and expunged claiming they would never have to worry because it would never show up when filling out an application which may have been the case years ago but not today with level 2 FBI fingerprinting.
So, either they should be allowed to have their records expunged from FBI records as well or they should at the very least be able to go before a judge to let him rule whether to destroy the record altogether.
https://www.politico.com/story/2018...ison-reform-bill-backed-by-white-house-603333
That's all fair and nice but it won't do any good since companies are all demanding FBI fingerprinting to get jobs these days. And therefore, it won't matter if prisoners obtain a PHD, they still won't get the job!
One might wonder why so many are out of work these days given the fact everywhere one looks there are help wanted signs in the window or on billboard signs.
Well, one of the biggest problems, is that nowadays just about everyone is demanding FBI fingerprinted back ground checks otherwise known as level 2. Many people are boxed in and unable to get a job due to this. Some with only one conviction in their past as far back as fifty years ago which is completely idiotic. How many in society has never committed some type of crime? Just because they weren't caught, doesn't mean they were innocent...it just means they were luckier than the guy handcuffed and dragged off to jail.
And the real travesty is many had plea bargained and agreed to plea guilty in exchange for having their records sealed and expunged claiming they would never have to worry because it would never show up when filling out an application which may have been the case years ago but not today with level 2 FBI fingerprinting.
So, either they should be allowed to have their records expunged from FBI records as well or they should at the very least be able to go before a judge to let him rule whether to destroy the record altogether.
https://www.politico.com/story/2018...ison-reform-bill-backed-by-white-house-603333
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