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WCDT Strips 3826-3830 (10-14 September 2018)
Is it cold in here?:
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--- Quote from: QuestionableIntentions on 13 Sep 2018, 21:56 ---"I broke the law, how dare you all not forget that instantly!"
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Does the US not have any means of considering a conviction "spent"? In the UK there is a mechanism by which, for instance, for most jobs the employer is not permitted to consider a spent conviction in deciding if someone is suitable, and the applicant is not required to declare it.
The Rehabilitation of Offenders Act
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Many states allow a conviction to be "expunged" under circumstances that will vary from state to state.
May, however, may have wound up in the Federal system since she was committing bank fraud. In our world a Federal conviction is forever. The only way to get it off your record is to get a Presidential pardon. Even that wouldn't help her if a prospective employer knows how to use Google.
SmilingCat:
--- Quote from: jwhouk on 14 Sep 2018, 04:58 ---And this, at its basic, is the reason why the American correctional system fails. People presume that "doing time = repentance." That is why many states call their state-run jail facilities "penitentiaries".
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As a Quaker I feel compelled to point out that Penitentiary came from Quakers who were honestly trying to reform criminals, and the first Penitentiary was designed to encourage that reformation.
(It actually tended to drive people crazy, lots of isolation. But hey, they meant well!)
hedgie:
--- Quote from: Zebediah on 14 Sep 2018, 10:39 ---$6.00 is expensive for tea here too.
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I dunno, anywhere from $4-$6 seems pretty normal to me.
OldGoat:
--- Quote from: SmilingCat on 14 Sep 2018, 16:41 ---As a Quaker I feel compelled to point out that Penitentiary came from Quakers who were honestly trying to reform criminals, and the first Penitentiary was designed to encourage that reformation.
(It actually tended to drive people crazy, lots of isolation. But hey, they meant well!)
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That one-size-fits-all thing again. They couldn't imagine that there was any illness of the Human Spirit that prayer and meditation couldn't fix, and they were absolutely sincere in that belief. As has happened so many times in human history, ideals collided head on with ideology, and the results weren't pretty.
hedgie:
When all one has is a hammer…
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