When someone is released from prison, they receive almost no financial or emotional support to successfully reintegrate into society. A study by the John Howard Society on employer attitudes towards formerly incarcerated people found that 51 per cent of respondents would not hire someone with a criminal record.
Additionally, 55 percent believed these applicants posed a “heightened risk and liability” in terms of physical safety or economic impact, and assumed they had lower skill levels compared to applicants without a criminal record. Yet, paradoxically, 92 per cent of those same respondents also expressed support for reintegrating people with histories of incarceration into the workforce.
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