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Felons have right to make a living
To the editor:
I am writing in concern of the rights of the felons.
Lately, I have been talking to a lot of young people that have made mistakes as a young man or woman for that fact, but have made their mistakes as we all have but they can't seem to get anyway to support their families or themselves.
Why, you may ask? It is because certain employment agencies won't hire felons or young people with misdemeanors. Now I understand that they have the right to hire whomever they want. But how are these people who have made these mistakes suppose to support themselves? Why reintroduce them back into society if you won't allow them to become an asset to the community or to embrace the many changes that society brings about? Some say that they can't live in the projects because they are felons. They sometimes can't get jobs that they could very well do because they are felons. One young man said he left Blytheville and went to Jonesboro and applied at a telemarketing job and they would not hire him because of a crime he now admits was stupid, but that was 17 years ago, and he stated he can't even get it expunged off and it was not murder or a sexual crime. So what are these people supposed to do? If they are reintroduced into society, then society needs to give them a fair enough chance to show that they are of value. Or we are just asking them to go back and commit other if not the same crimes, which brings about a circle of turmoil, which will make them a problem for any community.
Let's give them a fair enough chance to prove to the parole boards and the citizens of any city that they to are worthy of the same chances, same jobs, same choices in careers like any other citizen. Let's not play judge and jury with these people's lives. We don't know what was going on in their lives; we don't know if they were at all even guilty. But they have made up these policies which are basically rules that were made long ago. Everybody deserves a chance.