Dies to Removal

You guys in the US sure are complicated

What exactly is it like where you are?

A lot of states in America do consider your criminal past to be "protected" in terms of employment (we have to go through yearly training about discrimination in the workplace, and ex-criminals are definitely on the list of protected classes). Employers can ask you if you've been convicted of a crime (perhaps only a felony? I'm not positive), but it's illegal to discriminate against you based off of it unless your crime is related to the position in some way.

Obviously this has an extremely low success rate, and is related to what I was talking about earlier. The "have you been convicted of a felony?" checkbox affects the weed dealer and the bar fight guy as much as it does the murder and rapist. Employers legally can't ask you for more information (on the application, at least), causing most to be weeded out (heh) right off the bat, regardless of the nature of their crime.

It's an interesting topic, because I simultaneously believe rehabilitated criminals deserve to be treated fairly in the workplace but I also sympathize with employers not wanting to feel in the dark about their employees' past criminal offenses.

Like many of the issues we face today, a good part of the solution is cultural, not legislative. I don't believe it would be impossible to solve the legislative part in America (just make the "felon" checkbox illegal to ask on an application), but the cultural aspect, as shown with this whole issue, is still up in the air: some people believe in rehabilitation and some people do not.

Has your country "solved" the cultural aspect in some respect? Could you say how, or, like most cultural things, is it just "the way it is" to you?

He should be in jail for the rest of his life. He instead cannot play a card game.

he plead guilty and did his time. he's not a habitual offender like what kait has to deal with on a daily basis. im not being some rape apologist shitbag and you can call me whatever name you can but im pointing out he did his time, and that if wotc is gonna go after these kind of people, then chaplin needs a lifetime ban because he did more time.