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

[Matt Heusser]

These sort of job retraining programs can teach someone to be an analyst
that slings sql queries at a small insurance company I. Memphis, tn. Maybe
front end dev is easier than I realized, but I doubt it is realistic.

Then again, if someone is incarcerated for years...

On Sat, Mar 30, 2019 at 5:45 PM Mac McCarthy <mac.mccarthy at gmail.com> wrote:

> Yes; have pity on them!
>
> On Sat, Mar 30, 2019 at 2:43 PM Phil Shapiro <pshapiro at his.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> Facebook to hire ex-felons?
>>
>>     Not a good idea.  When you mix ex-felons with felons, the rate of
>> recidivism goes up.
>>
>>
>> https://www.cbsnews.com/news/priscilla-chan-mark-zuckerberg-wife-wants-to-teach-inmates-how-to-code/
>>
>>                 phil
>>
>> All things considered, it's fine for the incarcerated to be given the
>> opportunity to learn coding skills.  But plueeeezzzz,
>> don't hire them at Facebook upon their release. They have already paid
>> their debt to society by then.
>>
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