donsu
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Wed Dec-20-06 12:03 PM
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is it true that non violent felons on being released from prison are joining |
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the military because they can't get a job and/or the military pays more and provides housing/clothing?
heard this from a caller on Wash. Journal this morning.
another caller suggested that non violent affenders should be released early from prison to serve in the militry.
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wakeme2008
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Wed Dec-20-06 12:05 PM
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1. Sounds more and more like Vietnam |
no_hypocrisy
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Wed Dec-20-06 12:09 PM
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2. It makes sense from this standpoint: |
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When you are released, you have a record. When you apply for a job, you have to answer if asked that you have been convicted of a felony within the past five years. And it's a vicious circle because you answered truthfully and you don't get the job. You often can't get a driver's license right away. So other than crime as a way to make money, one of the few options left to you as an ex-con is the military. It also looks like redemption on your resume as you wait for those five years to go by.
No, I DON'T like it, but I understand the process where released federal prisoners are indirectly compelled into the military, which is going from one institution into another institution with a higher mortality rate.
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Wed Dec-20-06 12:34 PM
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3. There was talk of this two years ago. Then it stopped. I guess we are |
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back to desperate times re: military.
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