You can't hold a medical license with a felony in Texas (nursing and xray tech in my department) so I could not hire them.

BIL has a fabrication business, most of his crew are felons. lol Prison turns out some pretty good welders, plus they don’t seem to mind going in some of the places they have to get in for assembly. They still have issues maintaining and he’ll have to bail them out after a “rough” weekend but they would do anything for him.

I would, if I was running a coon longline. He could skin and put up all my coon. Heck yeah!

In my place of employment we cannot have them around, per the law. That being said I would hire one if I had a job that allowed it. It would depend on several factors and the background story.

This. I'll also say that a lot of these guys on here that say they never would, probably work with felons every day without even knowing it. There are a lot of "minor" felonies out there these days and a lot of people who have got in trouble for them. Most people don't bring it up in everyday conversation.

Still is everywhere if you grossly exceed possession limits, it's sorta legal though in some states.

Depends. If I were trying to hire for a drug dealer position, or perhaps a crew to do a bank job, I would never hire a felon. Just too much risk there with a history of getting caught. Now, if I were hiring for a day care or teaching position, I'd be happy to hire a felon.

Company I worked for hired them. Prison in community. Nothing wrong with that except they hired them not as workers. Pzed me off about the 3rd one that told me to do the work his way.so he could keep track of piece count..
just
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Recidivism runs about 80%, odds aren't good. But then again with tolerance towards crime, non-arrests and all... recidivism must have went down!

I know two men that got felony DWIs long long ago. They both quit drinking back then but it is still on their record and held against them as a general felony in a lot of peoples eyes. I would hire them in a minute and trust my life and my families lives with them. Not all felonies and circumstances are created equal

What he said.

Lol. He's to smart to work for you. He doesn't work. He does the hiring.

They will give Trump a shine box on his way out of jail in several years,lol.

Why would anyone hesitate to hire a released felon?

They are all a graduate student from from the Dept of Corrections. It doesn't matter how they thought before: they are with the program today.

If they could handle firearms I’d hire one as long as they were qualified in other ways. But they can’t, so I can’t.

It goes to show you what they think of their own training program.

This makes me think...

A term in the slammer should be graded. No letter grade, just pass/fail.

• Pass warrants return to society unconditionally
• Fail: sorry nice knowing you

Sure. If they could trap coyotes. I would not hire = thief or sex offender felon. But it America. We are allowed to choose who we work with. I also wouldn’t hire a democrat or a liberal. But thats just me.

I had a 12 year employee that made a bad decision one night and paid the price with a felony conviction that resulted in 6 months in jail which cost him his job. When he got out in 6 months I had another guy retire and was able to hire him back. He retired last year with 25 years of excellent service. Great employee that made a bad decision, but paid his debt and never let it hold him back.

Never a thief, I learned a hard lesson by doing that.