[Slartibreakfast]

Yep, about half of ex-cons end up back in the joint.

And this is all the more reason, if you're going to hire someone with a criminal record, to try and treat them with the same respect you'd treat any other employee. For the very fact that many of them get treated so poorly when they get out that it makes just as much sense to go back in.

[jackmaney]

Yeah, that's an enormous "if". Nearly every job I've held since college involved passing a criminal background check as a prerequisite for employment.