[Ipg-smz] Facebook to hire ex-felons?

[Ken Hess]

Exactly Sharon. That's the dilemma. You get out and can't find a decent
job. What do you do? Fast food or crime?

I think there needs to be actual education in the prison system especially
for those who have the possibility of parole/release. We can either spend
some money training, teaching, and educating people or we can pay for them
to come back and live off the state or get released and commit more crimes.

Thanks,

Ken

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On Sun, Mar 31, 2019 at 6:31 PM Sharon Fisher <slfisher at gmail.com> wrote:

> So when someone has done their time, what are they supposed to do for a
> living when released?
>
> On Sun, Mar 31, 2019, 12:50 PM Gabe Goldberg <gabe at gabegold.com> wrote:
>
>> FWIW, I've volunteered with Fairfax County, VA Police Department for 10+
>> years. I know -- and in many cases have ridden with -- officers from
>> patrol to chief. I chaired my police station's Citizens Advisory
>> Committee and serve on the Chief's Advisory Council. I'm on a task force
>> developing policies for public safety use of drones -- it's about 40
>> people, including police, fire&EMS, fire marshal, county attorney, FAA,
>> Audubon Society, business organizations, citizen/civic groups, and head
>> of Virginia ACLU. Output so far is a draft 35+ page manual and all the
>> info is on fairfaxcounty.gov/uas.
>>
>> There are 18,000+ law enforcement agencies in the country so it's
>> misleading to generalize about "the police"  or "law enforcement".
>> Fairfax cops I know are honest/honorable/motivated to do the right
>> thing. Over the years, policies have changed -- sometimes in response to
>> national trends, sometimes to community involvement/pressure, sometimes
>> to FCPD problems. There's pretty good transparency and responsiveness.
>> Fairfax (1200+ officers) isn't Mayberry or NYC (30,000+ officers) --
>> there's no reason NOT to talk to police here; in fact middle/high
>> schools all have School Resource Officers whose job is to TALK to kids
>> -- not arrest them.
>>
>> I'm not claiming that everywhere's as fortunate as Fairfax -- just
>> suggesting that all-inclusive advice about police can be misleading.
>>
>> On 3/31/2019 11:18 AM, Stephen Satchell wrote:
>> > On 3/30/19 5:05 PM, Richard Santalesa wrote:
>> >> Oh come on pretty much everything is a felony these days.
>> >
>> > All too true, which is why you NEVER talk to law enforcement unless you
>> > have to.
>> >
>> > And "ex-felons" implies "convictions".
>> >
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