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Should your university or company have the right to ask about someone's prior convictions in their admission or job application?

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Yes
34%
No
66%
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Katherine

If we truely believe that people who are released deserve a second chance and have served their, then why do we need to know about some of their worst moments in life? We don't ask people who have not been convicted to share their worst moments in their life.

10:10 AM | April 16, 2016

Justin Clark

Making them report this on applications becomes such a barrier to entry for those seeking a better life once they have reentrted society. They've served their sentence; let them be judged on who they are now rather than what they were.

10:10 AM | April 16, 2016

Katie Keck

Most of the time that person's criminal record has nothing to do with the job that they are seeking. If prisons are supposed to punish and reform, why, when a person leaves prison, do we continue to punish them and not allow them the opportunity to reform their lives?

10:10 AM | April 16, 2016

Amy Hildebrand

How can anyone possibly have an opportunity to rebuild themselves and their lives post conviction? You must be allowed to make a mistake, we are all only human.

10:10 AM | April 16, 2016

Anonymous

Just to know their history and see how they've reformed

10:10 AM | April 16, 2016

Anonymous

Only in the case of violent felony convictions.

10:10 AM | April 16, 2016

S

It has only been used to discriminate

10:10 AM | April 16, 2016

Jlf

They have done their time. We need to practice forgiveness, all the time.

10:10 AM | April 16, 2016

Art Vandelay

They don't need to know my birthday or whether or not I'm married, so they shouldn't be allowed to ask for this either.

10:10 AM | April 16, 2016

Bud Conlin

Everyone deserves a chance, a foot in the door.

10:10 AM | April 16, 2016

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