...There are still 37 states have no policy against hiring discrimination for the ex-offenders. Most states that have "ban the box" policies exclude private employers. For those states that extend the policy to private employers make exemptions for small businesses. In conclusion, providing education to inmates in prison to meet job requirement and adopting "ban the box" policies are means of improving the health of vulnerable populations and decreasing health inequities. Greater attention should be devoted to studying the health status of individuals with criminal histories and their families. Without providing education to the inmates and fair hiring policies for ex-offenders, we will continue to see health disparities widen and communities destroyed by the epidemic of mass...
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...A STUDY ON THE EMPLOYABILITY AND ATTITUDE OF EMPLOYERS, TOWARDS EMPLOYING EX-PRISONERS AND EX-OFFENDERS AS PERCEIVED BY HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGERS IN ORTIGAS PASIG CITY Prepared By: Ms. Marilyn Dimaculangan CHAPTER I THE PROBLEM AND ITS BACKGROUND INTRODUCTION It is well known that employment is an important need of most individuals; it provides income, social connection, and feelings of societal contribution and self worth. What may be less well known are the barriers to employment faced by those with criminal record, the challenges faced by employers in hiring ex-offenders and what can be done to facilitate employment opportunities as record numbers of people transition from incarceration to the community. A great number of employers are reluctant to hire individuals with a criminal past citing lack of skills and work history, untrustworthiness, and fear of liability for negligent hiring, among other things. Employers use of criminal history background checks over the past decades and they are less willing to hire ex-offenders that any other advantaged group. Their willingness to hire ex-prisoners varies according to the industry and position, the type and severity of offense committed by applicant and work experience since release. Employers are not always consistent in what they say versus what they do when it comes to hiring former offenders and prisoners Jail is a synonym for prison, especially when the facility is of a similar size as a prison. As with prisons...
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...THE EMPLOYER AND THE EX-OFFENDER: THE DISCRIMINATORY EFFECTS OF CRIMINAL BACKGROUND CHECKS TABLE OF CONTENTS I. INTRODUCTION………………………………………………………………………… 3 II. OFFENDER AND EX OFFENDER HISTORY IN THE UNITED STATES………….. 5 A. LEGAL HISTORY OF EMPLOYMENT DISCRIMINATION AGAINST EX OFFENDERS ……… 5 B. THE NUMBER OF EX OFFENDERS IS RAPIDLY INCREASING .............................................................................8 C. IMPACT OF CONVICTION ON EMPLOYABILITY OF EX OFFENDERS ................................................................. 10 III. CRIMINAL BACKGROUND CHECKS AID IN THE DISPROPORTIONATE EXCLUSION OF MINORITIES ………………………………………………………………………………… 13 A. EMPLOYERS ARE PREJUDICED UPON FINDING CRIMINAL CONVICTIONS .................................................. 13 B. BLACKS AND LATINOS ARE EXCLUDED FROM THE WORK FORCE DUE TO STIGMAS OF MINORITY STATUS AND CRIMINAL RECORD ....................................................................................................................... 15 IV. HEIGHTENED SCRUTINY TURNS ON EMPLOYER HIRING PRACTICES INFLUENCED BY CRIMINAL BACKGROUND CHECKS………………………………………………………………………………………… 18 A. THE EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY COMMISSION ATTEMPTS TO PROVIDE MUCH NEEDED GUIDANCE ON CONDUCTING CRIMINAL BACKGROUND CHECKS AND SUBSEQUENT HIRING PRACTICES ..................................................................................................................... 18 B. NOTABLE LEGAL ACTION STEMMING...
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...Many ex-felons who want to change cannot move on with their lives after being released from prison. One of those reasons is because they have a hard time finding a job after being released. The system makes it harder for them. Some felons go in at a young age, most times so early that they do not even achieve a high school education. Felons are unable to vote causing the system to remain against them. Prisons are placed far away from society. After being released ex-felons usually return to high crime rate areas. Most ex-felons have a hard time moving on with their lives, after being released from jail because they have multiple factors working against them. “Men and women who have served extensive prison sentences…are not only left with little or no social support but also clearly marked by the criminal justice system as potentially threatening repeat offenders". (Moore 783) What Moore is saying in this quote is that the justice system marks these ex-felons as a criminal for life, making it hard for them to find employment. The system is designed to offer no help to these...
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...study done in 2005 showed, more than 65 percent of ex-offenders were arrested within 3 years of release, and about 76 percent within 5 years of release. A recidivism study found that less than half of people released from prison had secured a job upon their return to the community. When it comes to their level of education, only about half of incarcerated adults have a high school degree or its equivalent. In another study, focusing on youth and young adults, it was demonstrated that recidivism rates are at 50 percent or higher for youth released from secure facilities, and as high as 70 percent for youth released from residential placement...
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...an employer or a business establishment is that a person applying for work should be of good moral character. In most cases, a job applicant is required to secure clearances from either the National Bureau of Investigation or the Philippine National Police. The clearances serve as certificate of good moral character and behavior. The clearance reveals if a person has a clean police record or if he/she has been already convicted of a crime. The employment situations of ex-convicts are a different story because the certificate secured from the said law enforcement agency reveals that the applicant has a bad record on file. Employers tend to reject people with a criminal record for the following reasons: people with a criminal record are seen, generally, as undesirable, to show moral disapproval; concern that employers would be held responsible for recruiting a person with a criminal record. As of now, there is no known employment statistics concerning ex-convicts and even if there is, it has not been used to help ex-convicts in gaining employment. In Lipa City. Almost...
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...recycled glasses and repurposed items, which are vases, cups, and chandeliers. The social business opportunity we seek is to create jobs in Newark and profits for our company while achieving environmental sustainability. My social venture idea meets all three aspects of the triple-bottom-line. Not only is the business considering the economic aspect, but we are addressing social and environmental goals as well. The social part will come into play, as the business of recycling and repurposing glass to create new products will require employment. Our management team will consist of five founders of the company, all bringing a broad range of skills with diverse backgrounds and experiences. In addition, we will be hiring students from Newark Arts High School and ex-offenders from the America Works program. We will initially hire...
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....................................... 12 The Background Checking Industry........................................................................................................ 12 Common Practices and Pitfalls............................................................................................................... 13 Past Calls for Reform .............................................................................................................................. 15 IV.WHY PEOPLE CARE: PUBLIC SAFTEY AND LIABILITY RECONSIDERED ............................................... 16 The “Public Safety” Argument ............................................................................................................... 16 The “Negligent Hiring” Argument...
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...Do Inmates Deserve a Second Chance? Cari Adee, James Crooms, Latandra Sain, Taylor Cotter, Rodney Henry, Breanna Johnson, Latonia Pitts BCOM/275 7/20/2014 Do inmates deserve a second chance? Every time that you turn on the news you see it: School shootings, babies being left in the car by parents, people selling and doing drugs, people being murdered, raped and assaulted. According to the inter press services, in the last three decades people that are in prison have increased almost 790 percent, in the last 30 years the inmates count has risen from 25,000 to 219,000 and is still rising at a disrupting rate. The question that we need to ask ourselves is if the people that get out of prison deserve a second chance at a normal life. Everyone has a different opinion on this topic. Some people will agree that once a person serves time for the crime that they committed then they deserve a chance to start over. While others think that those who committed a crime should have thought about their actions before they did the things that they did. This paper will not just go over to the pros of why inmates deserve a second chance but the cons as well, in hopes that whoever reads this paper will make their own judgments based on all the information and not just part of the evidence. There are many pros for why a criminal deserves a second chance at life. For instance, many criminals have families that are in need of their assistance, financially, physically, and emotionally. There...
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...The history of the United States has been one of many prejudice and racist ideologies that have led to the marginalization and oppression of various minority groups in American society. The ideology of white supremacy has led to discriminatory legislation and allowed racist sentiments to permeate the social institutions aimed to serve the citizens of this country. Minorities in general and African Americans in particular, have historically been the primary targets of the discrimination in this society exercised not only by governmental institutions in this country, but also by the majority of the white population in this country. With the end of the Jim Crow era, proponents of white supremacy were now faced with a new dilemma, how to continue the oppression of African Americans in this country in a “post-racial” society. American society began to be seen as a “color-blind” environment, which made the discrimination of individuals based on race non-permissible. Discrimination now had taken a new form, instead of discriminating against African Americans based on race; supporters of white supremacy now criminalized and labeled them as criminals. Michelle Alexander in her book The New Jim Crow, explains how this new form of discrimination continued the same oppression towards African Americans that was exercised in the Jim Crow era and was now “justified” by discriminating them on the basis of criminal behavior. Through the creation of this new system of criminalization, Michelle...
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...Trends Paper 484 4/13/2015 Dwayne Carr The trends in the criminal justice system There are concepts created to help with the future of criminal justice system department of corrections growth is being structured. For the reason with the trends that started from the past into the current time happening, from the issues turning in to problematic situations. With the overpopulated jail and prison system and the shortage of finances, to keep the criminal justice system efficiency However, in the matter if they do not deal, with and discover an excellent solution to aid in this matter. Then will continue to make the criminal justice system of corrections inefficient. Future with the department of corrections, to be in question the concepts that looked at as answers to the problems are the Relapse Prevention Therapy treatment programs. In addition, restorative for the criminal justice department of corrections future, which being discuss with community activist, legislators. In addition, the administrators as they figure out the best methods that will correct, the distress also issues with the trends from the past in the current situations. With the past, the criminal justice system, department of corrections the political figures thought which taking a harsh tactics, to criminal committing criminal actions was a just thing to do. For the reason, recidivism would not lower with programs treatment, which is what they thought to be true this also thought of dropping...
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...The Economic Benefits of Addiction Treatment Versus Prison Economics 2302 CRN 11789: Chu Nguyen Fall 2013 Lisa Carpenter The Economic Benefits of Addiction Treatment Versus Prison In 2010, it was estimated that there were 22.6 million Americans that were addicted to illicit drugs. The economic effects of drug addiction are staggering. It affects everything from health care costs to prison costs, to unemployment and social costs. In the past, the solution to drug addiction was to lock up the drug addicts and dealers in prison, get them out of the eye of society and the problem will go away. The prisons became overcrowded and new prisons had to be built to accommodate them. In the 1990’s, states started to implement drug courts and began to address the problem of addiction. By treating the demand (the addiction), the supply, and all of the problems that go along with it will ultimately be greatly reduced. A woman, whom I will call Sarah, became addicted to the pain killer, Vicodin when she had her wisdom teeth out. For years, in order to feed her addiction, Sarah would go from doctor to doctor requesting the medication. Eventually, the addiction became so out of control that she needed more pills than the doctors were willing to prescribe her. At this point, if she just stopped taking the medication she would go into physical withdrawals similar to heroin. To get the quantity of medication she needed on a daily basis, she started calling in to the pharmacy...
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...Assignment #1 Davis V. The Board of County Commissioners of Dona Ana Country Kendra Dailey Dr. Edward Sherbert HRM 510 April 28, 2013 What was the legal issue in this case? The legal issue pertaining to the case of Davis v. The Board of County Commissioners of Dona Ana County which could have been prevented through the act of ill will. Joseph Herrera was a detention officer at the Dona Ana County Detention Center in which he was accused of inappropriate sexual behavior with a female prisoner and in exchange for sexual favors. Knowing that Joseph Herrera had the potential of committing a crime but not stopping the act is just as guilty as the person that has committed the crime, with this case an employer owes prospective employers and foreseeable third persons a duty of reasonable care not to misrepresent material facts in the course of making an employment about Joseph Herrera. After resigning from the Dona Ana County Detention Center the director Frank Steele and Assistant director Al Mochen which were Joseph Herrera supervisors gave a positive recognition to the Mesilla Valley Hospital, in which he was hired as a mental health technician. Mariah C. Davis (plaintiff) was convinced that due to untruthful information provided by Steele and Mochen he was able to get employed at the hospital. In my opinion this case is very interesting and brought forth valid points with the case. It also raises the question of us being citizens of the United States are we responsible...
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...Assignment #1 Davis V. The Board of County Commissioners of Dona Ana Country Keidra Dailey Dr. Edward Sherbert HRM 510 April 28, 2013 What was the legal issue in this case? The legal issue pertaining to the case of Davis v. The Board of County Commissioners of Dona Ana County which could have been prevented through the act of ill will. Joseph Herrera was a detention officer at the Dona Ana County Detention Center in which he was accused of inappropriate sexual behavior with a female prisoner and in exchange for sexual favors. Knowing that Joseph Herrera had the potential of committing a crime but not stopping the act is just as guilty as the person that has committed the crime, with this case an employer owes prospective employers and foreseeable third persons a duty of reasonable care not to misrepresent material facts in the course of making an employment about Joseph Herrera. After resigning from the Dona Ana County Detention Center the director Frank Steele and Assistant director Al Mochen which were Joseph Herrera supervisors gave a positive recognition to the Mesilla Valley Hospital, in which he was hired as a mental health technician. Mariah C. Davis (plaintiff) was convinced that due to untruthful information provided by Steele and Mochen he was able to get employed at the hospital. In my opinion this case is very interesting and brought forth valid points with the case. It also raises the question of us being citizens of the United States are we responsible...
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...and should be treated as such especially if they are reformed. A person can commit a crime that results in a felony and twenty years later still suffer the harsh reality of certain privileges being taken away. Yes, an individual should be punished for their crimes but the effects of a felony conviction should not include or affect that person’s right to vote, finding employment, or the pursuance of a higher education. According to Olivares, Burton, and Cullen (1996) upon release these offenders also deal with stigmas, loss of job opportunities, friendships, family relationships, and denial of civil rights. When it comes to the loss of job opportunities, a recent study has shown that most employers have hired at least one person with a felony conviction (Sawnson, Langfitt-Reese & Bond, 2012). Employers encourage job seekers with criminal records to be honest and willing to discuss their involvement with the justice system. Most employers did not have strict policies concerning hiring criminals and this is a plus. Convicted job seekers should follow standard job hunting techniques, but also be creative such as finding dependable references and making face-to-face contact. This should help the employer get a good idea of how the job seeker is trying to move forward and change their lives. Temporary job services often offer felons jobs and this could help them get the experience they need and references to re-enter the regular job market. There are day labor...
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