[NativeSon]

The "meth control act" circa 1997, makes it a fed crime to hire someone convicted of drug trafficking or manufacturing, if access to articles used in illicit drug manufacture would result from that employment.

N.Y. state then sues the companies that do not hire those released felons.

[kearnyirish2]

Ridiculous, isn’t it?

Then again, the same government that forced banks to make bad loans to minorities turned around when they defaulted and accused the same banks of making loans that could never be repaid...