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Does the Sex Offender Registry Do More Harm Than Good?

Open to Debate

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Are You on the Registry? Is It a Scarlet Letter?

Most even employers that like sort of get grants and brag about how they hire people with criminal histories, usually always exclude people with sex offenses. One guy who had a college degree told me he was crying in a jack in the box parking lot last week because he'd applied for 30 jobs at fast food places that he couldn't get. Some employers ban the box, which means they don't do a criminal history check. In some states, after seven years, it's automatically erased from your criminal history in any case,. But the registry's public so the other employees and the employers will know at some point that somebody's on the registry.

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