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Perpetual Punishment, The Collateral Consequences Of Life With A Criminal Record

Recently, a few upstate news outlets released stories about a crime Ithaca College president Shirley Collado plead no contest to almost 20 years ago. And that got us thinking, what’s the impact, on individuals and society when someone’s criminal record is made public after they’ve completed their sentence?

JoAnne Page is the President of The Fortune Society which helps people returning from incarceration get the resources they need to be successful in their lives.

“We see people at Fortune all the time who’ve been out and who’ve been working. And then when they’re going for a promotion or going for a new job their old record comes up and it hurts their ability to move ahead in their careers in ways that they’ve earned. So, there’s a huge unfairness in this.

“And what’s interesting in this for me is that that cuts against all major religions – the idea that people are able to be redeemed, that people are able to change their lives, you know, that, who among us has a right to cast that first stone. And we keep casting it over and over again. There’s a huge unfairness in doing that.”

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