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Not a bad idea, considering that most people do get out of prison eventually. I can only imagine how hard it would be to find a job.
Does
anybody realistically expect a guy 50+, with 10/15/20+ years of prison, to be able to find a job?
There are folks in that age range with stellar, spotless records who cannot find employment.
When I was an Institutional Parole Officer (setting up inmates for release, including doing job hunts) often even the tax credits and "training wage" incentives were not enough to get somebody hired in a position that had been screamingly vacant for months. And those were all folks under 50 with as much as 2years of work release experience.
Yes, employers would take work release inmates because, among other things, they had a huge axe over their heads to control for attendance, performance, and especially "attitude". But when the time came to carry the inmate over to free-world employment it was a totally different story.
None of this is to excuse the mindset that ex-cons have to work against. It should not exist, but it does. Given the age of these guys, I'd rather set them up on welfare in a home for adults (as much as many of them are cesspools) and spend the tax dollars and effort on the under-40 crowd.
stay safe.
