Where can felons find jobs?

where can felons find jobs?

this is my first felony I got conspiring to manufacuring meth! and I can't get no job but burger king!

I'm not a felon - but reading some of the stories here makes me think that if I were a small business owner, ex-felons would be some of the hardest-working, punctual, ready-to-please workers. I hope anyone who owns a business and reads these posts will be inspired to give ex-felons a chance. There are a few good ideas in these posts...also, if it makes some of you feel better - I'm a NON-felon who is having trouble finding work in So Cal (after moving from the Midwest)...so it may not necessarily be your background - it could be that businesses are a little slower now than a year or two ago. It's a numbers game - don't give up!

You know I am really sick and tired of people saying: I think people deserve a second chance, knowing damn well that they their selves have done something that constitutes breaking the law, but some of us were caught.
It's been 15 years since my conviction and 13 years since I've been released from prison. And still today it is hard to get a job. Hell I don't have one now. When that judge in Ohio gave 18 months for a stolen car that belonged to my sister (who did not press charges) He gave me a life sentence. And I have even hear
d people say : Well you can't expect a just society to take ex-felons back in without some earning of trust. Well for one you show me a just society. How just is that if I or my family had money I probably would have walked with a warning, but since I or my family had no money and I was 18 years old and not enrolled in college or the military they(State of Oh.) decided to play God. O.J. killed two people and was found innocent, now had mr. Simpson had no money he would be seating on death row. So where again is justice? And did you know that back in 1993 that when a state sentence a person to prison on their fist offense the state receives $75,000 from the Federal Government for every first timer. And if some one is paroled and they mess up and are sent back to prison the state receives $35,000 for every repeat offender. This is not Justices , this not rehabilitating, This is about money BIG Money ,Greed and Power. So guess what the state does? They make as many prison within their borders as they can and they fill those prisons whit as many as bullshit charges they can and they give parole not to the one who tries and signs up for AA or NA or College classes, no, they give parole to the real criminals because the state knows they will be coming back and they receive another $35,000 from the Federal Government. Now after 13 years of being out of prison(I did my time) and no one will give me a decent job where I can actually make a living. All I have to say to society: Stick it all up your nasty,greedy,self worshiping, selfish a@# and F@##K You All. And if ya want go ahead and email me if ya think I am lying . Fun mail me

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Where can one serving diversion and one-year probation for a one-time offense have any luck whatsoever finding employment?

Hi to everyone

Dont give up. I have a brother in law who spent most of his adult life in and out of prison mostly for bank robberies. The last two charges were life sentence in Australia for aggravated bank robbery with a deadly weapon and the last one for importation of class A drug and was sentenced for 8 years in Portugal. He got out after 3 years and now settling in England.

The point I am making is that he is now working as a drivers mate for the past 3 years and making good progress. I can be quite hard on him at times. However I am proud of the progress he has made so far.

I am not sure how things work in USA but maybe you could try driving jobs or drivers mate like my brother in law. How about counsellors for prisoners out of prison? Or maybe you could try selling some thing in the flea market, window cleaning buy cheap stuff from wholesalers and sell it in a market.

Once again this is just a suggestion, please accept my apologies if these ideas do not apply to your situation.

One thing you must not do is Give Up. It will be worth it in the end. Sometimes it is tough. Let me know if any one wants a chat.

self employment, work at home, or small businesses.

Damn!! I MEAN DAAAMMMNNN!!! Isn't there ANYone that secured a decent position with a felony conviction?!! I don't want to complain, but this is ridiculous! I just started down this new path of convicted felon, and I'm scared to death. I've done everything right in my life--got good grades in high school, graduated cum laude from college, got married right out of school, became a school teacher. It was the picture perfect life. Two years out of school my wife leaves me and three years after that I met someone INCREDIBLE (after a string of horrible short term relationships). It happens that the girl I met was a student. That was three years ago. She's 20, I'm 28. If I was ANY other profession it would've been completely legal. I know..waaa waaa..I hate sob stories as well..but I have no idea how to do anything else but teach..I'm an academic at heart. What the hell do I do now? I'm gonna give life 5 years..then I'm done.

I don't have an answer and I don't have a felony, but my son committed a crime last year, he was celebrating his 19th birthday with a 15 year old (same age mentally). They were getting high and got the munchies and the 15 year old told my son there was food in the high school. They walked into an unlocked window and got caught on the way out, they didn't eat anything, so they didn't cost the school money. The 15 year old got expelled, my son got a Burg II charge and is now in HELL. He is still immature, but he is supposed to go to drug classes and finish community service. When your immature like him and have no hope, I don't know, he is suicidal. I can't believe it was a felony, if he had done it here at home it wouldn't have been, we know the principal. I am sick about all of your posts, cause I know that sometimes you just get caught doing something stupid or your young like my son and you don't think about what your doing to your future. I don't understand, they should just execute you if they never let you be free again, he even cried to me mom, I can never vote how sad he never did get to vote. The whole thing is heartbreaking and finding a job now, never gonna happen. He is an asthmatic lazy kid with no drive, he wants to work fast food, not hard labor, he sucks at that. My son isn't like a lot of you, you are ready to work, but he is young and immature, is there hope for him? Scared to death for my son. His last court date got him 2 more years of probation, he is on probation until he turns 22 and he wanted to leave that state. Why do they do that to them? I just don't get it, the biggest thing of all, he has NEVER EVER been mirandized, so if I had had money, he wouldn't have this issue at all.

BECOME A ROCKSTAR! Can you sing?? Get a band and sing about your time and what you learned from it...or sex drugs and rock and roll. Whatever floats your boat. It'll pay off if it works out for you= metaphorically and tangibly.

Let me know your bands name if you do.

I started working for myself, I found a company on-line that allowed me to make a small investment of fifty dollars to get started I used the steps that they told me I started making money immediately from home. I own my first business I am glad of what happen because it forced me to step out and trust myself and invest in me and not a big company.