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Alright here me out. A person is convicted of a crime that is considered a misdemeanor and given a six month probation period. How long is it before he is a free man/woman ?

a. 6 months b. 1 year c. 18 months

A person is convicted of a crime that is considered a felony and sentenced to two years in a correctional facility that is paid $80,000 a year to keep him/her. How long is it before he is free man/woman ?

a. 2 years b. 4 years c. 6 years





If you answered a. for both questions you are technically correct.

But what about when these people are set free. Are they really free to live their lives ?

Well yeah if your looking at it from the perspective that they are no longer on probation or incarcerated. One thing people forget is that they now have C.O.R.I.. A piece of information that consist of all their offences, that can be viewed by various different places one would need to go to in order to truly reinvent themselves as a law abiding citizen. Ones C.O.R.I. follow them for ten to fifteen years considering whether or not the crime committed was a misdemeanor or a felony. This for many people this is a huge road block in the already difficult process that is reinventing yourself. Some just feel that they shouldn't even put any effort into it because its not going to happen while others cling to their old ways for the same reason.

To me this is extremely to long for someone to be tied to their past.
Now I'm not saying that someone should just be granted a clean slate. What I am saying is that they should be given a chance to simply make the past the past.


I propose the simple solution that if someone has a criminal past that someone should be able to some what erase their past. I propose that the government start a program that would allow someone with a criminal record to prove to the state over a two year period through a series of evaluations administered by a government official that they are and will continue to be a changed person. I'm not saying that it should be easy but it should be fair with a sufficient turn out of ex-criminals into the world as new individuals with a clear background.