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NY Times editorial praising new laws on hiring former offenders

By Douglas A. Berman

The New York Times this morning has this notable new editorial headlined "Hiring and Fairness."  Here are snippets: Boston, Chicago and San Francisco set a welcome example earlier in the decade when they abandoned counterproductive policies that often barred former offenders from municipal jobs, no matter how minor their crime nor how distant in the past.  Connecticut, New Mexico and Minnesota have recently passed laws protecting the employment rights of former offenders. Other states should quickly follow. City governments recognized years ago that discrimination against former offenders had rendered a huge portion of the urban population unemployable.  The records also are notoriously unreliable, often flagging people who were falsely arrested or tried but found innocent of a crime...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on July 21, 2010 (boomark / email).