I HATE the idea of automatic restoration but not necessarily against them being able to earn it. Ex cons get put in a no win situation when they get out — few places to work or live. They get desperate and commit more crimes.
How about ex-con businesses, run by ex-cons who have straightened up.
There is one ex-con who started a bread making business, it’s sold around here. It’s horrible bread but probably people like it. (Horrible because it’s sweet.)
This Former Felon Started An Organic Bread Business That’s Now Worth $50 Million
Dave Dahl is the co-founder of an organic whole grains bread company. He’s also a convicted felon who has spent 15 years in prison, with charges including armed robbery, assault, and delivery of a controlled substance. And now, his company Dave’s Killer Bread is expanding outside of the 13 western states where it’s currently available and into the rest of the U.S., courtesy of a partnership with Goode Partners, a New York private equity firm.
It wasn’t an accident that Dahl ended up in the bread business. His family started the NatureBake bakery brand in 1955. But Dahl’s breads ended up being a big hit at local farmers’ markets when he launched his line in 2005, just a year after getting out of prison.
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Dahl is also giving back to the prison community. Dave’s Killer Bread is one of four hiring partners working with Collaborative Benefit, a LinkedIn for the incarcerated and formerly incarcerated started by Tulio Cardozo, a former prisoner and graduate of the Last Mile prison startup accelerator. After all, Dahl is the ultimate prison success story.