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by fortythirteen 3027 days ago
So the fifty year old that got picked up for weed in 1982 doesn't deserve to find anything more than the most menial job?
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The parent didn't actually say that.

They said that it should be up to them, as to whether they hire that person after a background check eg reveals something.

There are very obvious cases where it makes a lot of sense to screen people based on background checks (eg a daycare or school). Further to that point, every business operator is different and has different beliefs. One operator might be ok with hiring a previously convicted rapist. The next business owner might be a woman who was raped in the past and has a very different view on that for good reason.

Whether the inmate deserves or not whatever you think she deserves is irrelevant to the issue that I am the one supposed to provide such thing. Why do I have to be the provider? Why don’t YOU do that if you so much believe in that? Why don’t YOU start a business and hire all felons?