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   KW>Yes, given the issues that a low-income person has getting employment   
     >after checking "Yes" on the box on a job application that asks if you   
     >were ever arrested/incarcerated - let alone apply for a job that   
     >requires a background check.   
      
   KW>If there are no hundrances to employment from the first incarceration,   
     >maybe the rate of recidivism will go down? It's worth a thought   
     >experiment at the very least - except that law enforcement and   
     >incarceration are well down the road of becoming for-profit enterprises.   
      
   The sort of help they would come up with in Canada might be something   
   like the gov't paying part of the salary for the first while for   
   employees that a company takes a chance on hiring with some minor   
   criminal record. As you suggest, it doesn't do anyone any good to   
   keep them from having a chance at ever earning an honest living.   
      
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