[SMGFan]

Lawsuits if a business picks a non-criminal?

[SkyDancer]

Go to jail, get a job. Be honest? Forget it.

[OneWingedShark]

"For many who have been incarcerated, the lifelong stigma of having a criminal record is compounded by the resulting consequence of not being able to find a job and take care of one's family or living on the street after being denied housing," Mukherji said in a statement. "While everyone makes mistakes -- which may rightfully require punishment -- people deserve the opportunity to recover from those mistakes [...]

It used to be that such an idea was called paying one's debt to society.
I think it worked fairly well until two things happened (1) the laws were changed so that there were crimes that you could never pay the debt for; and (2) the death penalty and corporal punishment was [essentially] abolished.

This created a second-class of citizen: what we see now as a felon (even if he's already served the sentence), it also paved the way for ridiculous-length sentencing like 15- and 20-years. (Seriously, even if we assume that a person on average lives to 80, the 20-year sentence is 1/4 of that; it's enough time for your kids to grow-up and have kids themselves.)

[Cowgirl of Justice]

Let them work for our esteemed Congressmen in their homes and offices first.

[Lizavetta]

I'm hearing that legislation such as this is what we call "mandated blindness" in that employers cannot ask if an applicant was a felon or if they are an illegal.

But they can certainly get sued if their felon employee commits a crime on the job or the illegal without a license crashes a company car.

Anyone who thinks lawyers don't run our government is a maroon.

[DoughtyOne]

Yep, let’s worry about criminals and to hell with the 92 million others.

How about a rising tide lifts all boats?

Just get people back to work Obama, you dumb ass.

[IronJack]

Completing your sentence either pays your debt or it doesn’t. If it does, there’s no reason to keep paying it until the day you die.

[trebb]

"While everyone makes mistakes -- which may rightfully require punishment -- people deserve the opportunity to recover from those mistakes

This point is "validated" by all the murders and other heinous crimes committed by the illegals who keep getting the "opportunities to recover from past mistakes".

What could go wrong? I would also assume that those getting the "opportunities" would become a protected species and less likely to be successfully prosecuted when they continue their ways.