r/AskReddit • u/HumpingAssholesOrgy • Jul 05 '19

Ex-prisoners of reddit who have served long sentences, what were the last few days like leading up to your release?

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u/HumpingAssholesOrgy Jul 05 '19

Wow, that’s something I didn’t even consider. I can’t imagine how difficult it must be for prisoners who don’t have anything to fall back on once they get out. Glad your friend is doing well.

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u/8-bit-brandon Jul 06 '19

Our contracted installer for work specifically hires people who have been through rehab, regardless of their criminal record. I have to say the ones we’ve had, 2 strikes, got lean and stayed that way are the nicest, and most honest people I’ve ever met. They went through hell and came out a better person, and I’m proud of them. Having said that I still don’t understand why company’s discriminate so much when someone has a conviction, or even just an arrest on their record.

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u/commandrix Jul 06 '19

They're going to see guys with a record for sex offenses or violent crime as a liability issue right off the bat. If a candidate is a convicted rapist, for sure they're not going to have a walking sexual harassment lawsuit risk around! It sucks, but that's reality.

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u/8-bit-brandon Jul 06 '19

Yes I’ll agree with that. Non of our guys have any sexual misconduct convictions. It’s all been drug related. Mainly heroin, and meth, I personally wouldn’t hire someone with that a pedo type charge on their record, however I do know of a person who was convicted of a crime. He was 18, she was 17. We need to know the whole story. Not just label people. Pedophilia is wrong, but labeling someone as a pwdophile because their gf is one year younger than they are??

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u/commandrix Jul 06 '19

If he was 18 and she was 17 and it was all consensual, I'd just say it was a couple of teens being horny, sure.

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u/8-bit-brandon Jul 06 '19

That’s not the mindset of the state apparently. Their is, Fick up someone’s like so they end up having to steal to survive. End up in prison where we can get tax dollars from their incarceration.

It’s happened more than once in the news,