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NY Times Editorial-" Hiring and Fairness"

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

NY Times Editorial Hiring and Fairness Published: July 20, 2010 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. Boston responded in 2006 with an exemplary nondiscrimination law that covers municipal hiring and hiring by companies that do business with the city...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on July 21, 2010 (boomark / email).