Do the majority of people out there look at convicted felons as being trash or useless?

Question

Do the majority of people out there look at convicted felons as being trash or useless?

Answer 1

Generally they do. People are so cruel and anti-social that they will not give a former convict a chance to clear up their lives and start anew!  People have such prejudices against ex-cons!

I do not expect a bank to hire a former robber, but, there are other jobs that ex-felons can do that pay well.  Not all truck driving jobs are suitable for felons (such as my former job in the North American Van Lines High Value Product Division), but driving trucks hauling sand would be okay, yet often, they cannot get a commercial license due to their past records!

I honestly believe that most people are more prejudiced against re-oriented ex-felons than they are against people of a different race!  The system does not allow ex-felons a chance to anonymously apply for certain categories of jobs (such as driving a sand truck) when they have been "clean" for a period of time.  But then, again, how much disclosure do you want when most employers do not want to give an ex-felon a chance to get back on his or her feet?  And, what is the system DOING to assist the ex-felon to adjust to his or her new job "on the outside"?  Employers certainly usually do not know how to relate to an ex-felon, there are situations that can try a recovering ex-felon to cause economic hardships which surmount the new life-style that the ex-felon is trying to adjust to!  An apartment manager without exact discrimination against the ex-felon per-se might exercise a prejudiced dishonesty on an ex-felon that is perpetrated against other non-felon tenants, and that can place a huge burden on the ex-felon's recovery into honest life!  An employer will have no sympathy, is there a parole system that can address this issue to help the ex-felon understand and remedy this situation?  Ex-felons need SPECIAL CONSIDERATIONS if they are to be successfully re-incorporated into our society!

Do we want ex-felons to become PERMANENT felons ??????????????  Come on, we're all human, but the prejudices are rampantly obvious out there!  We need to start being human... and after all, isn't the way we do not treat people as human beings really the cause of crime in the first place???  I think so!

Answer 2

Convicted felons can be really nice people, can be people with emotional problems or mental illness, or just bad people who like to do bad things.

The one thing that all felons have in common is a proven track record of making very poor decisions in their lives.

This makes the responsible people around them very nervous.  Not "useless" or "trash", but not trustworthy unless proven to be so.

Answer 3

i have more disdain for the unconvicted felons who call themselves our leaders

Answer 4

I try not to generalize about people who have been convicted of crimes.  For me to say that they were trash I would have to know what their crime was.  Like were they convicted of sexual abuse of a child that is definitely trash, murder, trash, petty theft not trash.  Being useless is a whole different matter.  A drug dealer is useless, most s*x offenders are useless, anybody who knows darn good and well they did it and are still complaining about being in jail is not only useless they are also trash.