Felons

Sometimes I wonder why so many look down on felons. True, they've broken the law in some way, form, shape, or fashion. But once they have paid their debt to society, and completed their supervision period, why should they continue to have to pay by ceing descriminiated against in the work force!  It's like the Judge saying... I sentence you to 134 months in prison, 2 years supervision, and a lifetime of struggle! I know a lot of people say, "they just make excuses, they don't want to work, they're just lazy". Well that's "whoever" opinion that want to think it. In most cases this is not true! Nobody want to go bacc to prison, once they have experienced it. It's just a person can only suffer for so long, and a lot of the times the one thing that's holding them bacc, is that record. Right now as of December 2011, it's five applicants to every job. Now if two of those applicants have felony convictions, nine times out of ten those two applicants will not ce concidered for the job, and the job will go to the one of the other three applicants with a clean record. That's just fact. Most Temporary Agencies will tell you right off the jump that they don't deal with felons. I heard of reasons like, their insurance don't cover them. It's easy when you're well educated, had good family support, and working a good job to say things like, these people are lazy, don't want to work, all they want to do is ce pacified by us tax payers. Yeah it's a few bad apples in the bunch, just like it's a few bad apples on Wall Street, in the Pulpit, on the school board, in congress, and working in the prison system. Every walk of life has it's bad apples! So why when it comes to felons, the few bad apples paint the picture for all felons. Reality is, once you're a felon, and have that label tatted on your record you're no longer an equal citizen in the United States! In 2004 over 5 million felons were denied the right to vote. 5 million people!!! That makes a big difference in an election, and prevent them from having a chance to vote for someone who support his/her ideas. So they have no one in office who they feel is on there side, and represents them on a political level. So basicly there just here, out in the streets surviving. Trying to find employment, and some lie on there application to get hired but once that secret is out, that job is out!  So now you have a person with no job, a family, and a country that has set him/her out on the curb. No one wants to lose their children, their home, so they turn bacc to what they grew up around the streets. It's not excuses. It's surviving. Like I said earlier, it's easy for someone doing well to speak down, or against someone who is almost litterally forced to live that street life. But our "Society" don't ceelieve these citizens are seeking employment, and judge them as an menace to society.


Every one in our country can not, and will not ever all ce employed! It just will never ce that way! I know it's no excuse for the killings, and all the other terrible things that's associated with street life. But this is the platform we create by holding someones past, against them for the rest of their life! When we elect politicians (Republicans), that wants to pacify the rich, and strip every benefit they can away from those at the bottom, it just make the situation worst. The people have to get money from some where to eat, pay the rent, and all the other bills, and if you got a felony, and no family support, eventually the street will succ him/her bacc in. Constantly holding a felons past against him strips every bit of rehabilitation away from him, and eventually he's bacc in the system.


A lot of felons are good stand up men/women that made a mistake at an age where they were easily influenced, and plauged with poverty.  All I'm saying is, it's a small portion of convicted felons that have no hope of ceing rehabilitated, no ambition to get up, hit the job market every day looking for that job to support their family. But once a person mess up, it's a mistake they will pay for, for the rest of their life! I hope those ones who feel felons should not ce equal to other citizens, never end up on that side of the fence.