I dont want any other Exoffender to go through what I have gone through Ex-offender Discrimination Being fired for just reporting to Boss that a $5,000,000 account employee called me a NIGGER Divorce Ideas being swallowed and reused / overworked under paid Homelessness ETC Some of the biggest hurdles for African Americans in Baltimore Approximately 650,000 ex-offenders are returning each year to communities throughout the country from state and federal penal systems. Moreover, approximately 12,000 ex-offenders will be released from Maryland prisons this year, about two-thirds of whom will return to Baltimore City neighborhoods. The nationwide number of returning individuals is expected to increase to 1.2 million in 2010. Many of these persons were imprisoned as a result of mandatory and other strict sentencing rules for drug offenders that were promulgated in the 1980s and 1990s. Ex-offenders face enormous obstacles to becoming fully involved and productive members of the community. Their struggles, in turn, affect the communities to which they will return. For example, ex-offenders are ineligible to live in public housing for certain periods of time. They also face significant barriers to employment, both because they are ineligible for many licenses related to trades and because employers are reluctant to hire this segment of the potential work force. For those who cannot find legitimate employment, the options are few. Some ex-offenders face state laws that bar them from voting as a result of their felony conviction. Maryland’s ex-felon disenfranchisement law has been the subject of intense legislative debate, and has recently been amended. Other ex-offenders, many of them women, will face challenges to obtaining custody of their children, as parental rights are often terminated due to imprisonment.
Posted on: Fri, 07 Mar 2014 11:03:29 +0000
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