Felon, it’s a newly identified race.
So are (were) Mike Tyson, Tom Sizemore, Christian Slater, Nick Nolte, Mick Jagger, Randy Quaid, Pete Rose, Rip Torn, Robert Mitchum, Chuck Berry, Darryl Strawberry, David Carradine, Merle Haggard, Vanilla Ice, Courtney Love, Snoop Dogg and a whole lot of others.
Many of these people went on to live "normal" lives, pay/paid a boatload of taxes and so on.
I see no reason to cripple someone for life for mistakes... especially ones done early in life.