The larger fight continues, to treat people who have been to prison with dignity and respect.
Perhaps put fewer people in prison to start with
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#42This really bums me out. I was a convicted felon at 18 years old, poor, living on the street. It wasn't any government re-integration program that helped me, it was a random person I met in highschool. I worked my way through everything -> college -> jobs -> startups -> lucky windfalls -> owning my own company. I've immigrated to Europe (3 times in the last 10 years technically), beating the legal issues each time. A…
Another option is to go live in a Compact of Free Association nations such as Micronesia or Marshall Islands. US citizens are authorized to live and work there without a visa, so once you live overseas there for a few years you can immigrate to most other nations using the background check from your country of prior residence, which is now a country where you have a clear background.
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#43Hi Richard, I'd like to donate towards retiring the debt you've personally guaranteed. How can I do this? Thanks for trying, it's more than most do. My genuine condolences you were unable to maintain traction due to the macro. (agree with 0des' sibling comment, hibernate the effort vs this being the death of it)
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#44Could the title please be changed to something that doesn't sound like HN itself is shutting down? This is incredibly misleading.
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#45Never heard of it, but sounds dangerous helping out rapists and murderers and such.
Perhaps, but unless you want a permanent under class of people unable to find real employment, there needs to be an on-ramp. Either someone is too dangerous to have in public (which case they should still be imprisoned), or they have served their sentence and their punishment is over.
https://www.bop.gov/about/statistics/statistics_inmate_offen...
Only a little over 1/3rd are actually in prison for violent crime.
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#46When the economy and job market began storming back, we were inundated with inbound requests for our services. Our perseverance seemed to be paying off. Except now we were hit with a new gut punch: “The Great Resignation.” Now our workers were reticent to come back to work. And if they did accept a job, they’d often leave after only a few days. As in the workers you placed, employees of 70MR? Why would they leave aft…
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#47Could the title please be changed to something that doesn't sound like HN itself is shutting down? This is incredibly misleading.
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#48When the economy and job market began storming back, we were inundated with inbound requests for our services. Our perseverance seemed to be paying off. Except now we were hit with a new gut punch: “The Great Resignation.” Now our workers were reticent to come back to work. And if they did accept a job, they’d often leave after only a few days. As in the workers you placed, employees of 70MR? Why would they leave aft…
I would also like more information about this phenomenon. What’s the scale of this? For example, how many people accepted a job and then quit within a few days? How did it impact these people’s lives? For example, did this result in increased recidivism? If so, at what scale?
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#49Hi Richard, I'd like to donate towards retiring the debt you've personally guaranteed. How can I do this? Thanks for trying, it's more than most do. My genuine condolences you were unable to maintain traction due to the macro. (agree with 0des' sibling comment, hibernate the effort vs this being the death of it)
Same. GoFundMe?
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#50Never heard of it, but sounds dangerous helping out rapists and murderers and such.
Perhaps, but unless you want a permanent under class of people unable to find real employment, there needs to be an on-ramp. Either someone is too dangerous to have in public (which case they should still be imprisoned), or they have served their sentence and their punishment is over.