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Are we creating a rebel army inadvertantly?

As record numbers of people leave prison, thousands of ex-criminals are pouring into communities. They've served their time, but their conviction bars them from many jobs, state and federal aid and some types of housing. Policymakers are beginning to consider whether the hodgepodge of state laws and regulations are protecting the public or creating an underclass of ex-cons who, after serving their sentence, cannot return to society. Congress will consider the issue later this year. And a nationwide legal conference will vote on a model state law this month. from usa today "If you look at the numbers of people who have some sort of criminal history in the United States, it's huge," Cassidy says. "We're creating an underclass of citizens, and that's probably not in our best long-term interest."

Public Comments

1. Probably. I mean, with all the people who hate this country, you have an army right there.
2. Whatever they'll never be able to overthrow the empire without the help of the ewoks anyways.
3. How are prisoners supposed to survive when they get out of prison? If they can't get jobs, then they will be unable to find some place to live. With no federal aid to help them become rehabilitated back into society they will probably become vagrants and return to their former criminal activities.
4. You have to look at it this way, there are criminals and there are those who make criminals. If we blame the criminals in our society then we must blame the ones responsible for making them criminals in the first place, for example - their family surroundings, the government for not allowing them the opportunity to express themselves freely, or just discrimination based on racism, gender, or something else. I think the government (federal, state, and local) laws have all gotten out of control, everything is too regulated. That is why so many people want to leave this country because there are too many laws, so nobody really knows what the laws are anymore because they only represent a small minority of individuals whose beliefs do not go with average daily Americans.
5. If there weren't so many government barriers to people opening their own businesses, this wouldn't be a problem.
6. I agree with you. I do not know if it is creating a rebel army, but it is creating pariahs in our society especially when it comes to sexual crimes. In Oklahoma for instance, they had the bright idea to outlaw any sexual predator from living within 2000 ft of a church, school, day care center, or park. It did not matter what the crime was, it just mattered that they were a convicted sex offender. It backfired big time as there were only a handful of places they could live and the sexual predators congregated in a particular mobile home park. Well you can predict the uproar. We use no common sense with passing laws these days, creating modern day lepers.