If you are concerned about the issues raised by the Zimmerman case: Read Michelle Alexander’s The New Jim Crow. Check out Judge Arthur Burnett and the work he is doing through the National African American Drug Policy Coalition naadpc.org. Judge Burnett has to be approaching 80 years old, yet he has taken his life’s work as a Judge and policy advocate to build this grassroots organization to get to some of root causes and create solution that work. Make it personal – hire an ex-con. If you own your own company or you are in a position of influence in your job work to hire an ex-con. There are millions of men who have been completely disenfranchised from our society because at one point they made a mistake. Most of who did not commit a serious violent offense, but got caught up in our overly aggressive sentencing driven by the prison industrial complex. There are plenty of non-profit agencies across the country that can work with you to identify candidates. There is a growing collection of research showing that ex-cons turn out to be some of your best employees. Given the second chance they tend to be more honest, more loyal and work harder then a typical employee.
Posted on: Sat, 20 Jul 2013 12:07:06 +0000
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