Introduction Every prescribed felonious conviction or judgment entails a life sentence. Subsequent to being released from prison, ex offenders are confronted with an array of sanctioned restrictions, ultimately ostracizing them from society for the rest of their existence. Once labeled a felon, access to programs essential to a successful reentry perish. Employment opportunities and social programs that facilitate effective reentry are not made available to those returning home upon serving their time for the crimes they have committed. The assortment of outlawed freedoms varies from housing restrictions to a lifetime ban on public assistance. In espousing these exclusions, the government has crippled ex offenders to the obligation of crime …show more content…
These offenders are returned back to the communities from which they were sentenced and are refused access to governmental assistance, employment opportunities, and forced to adhere to housing restrictions. In essence, the vast majority of ex convicts are abandoned by society and forced to fend for themselves. Under these conditions, most returning offenders result to past illegal practices in order to survive.
Problem Statement
With that being said, the purpose of this argument is to terminate the present network of mandatory exclusions and to grant offenders complete citizenship and freedom after having served their sentences. In order for reentry to become a fluent process for returning felons, the current stringent federal and state laws must be mended. In other words, in order to rehabilitate offenders, we must first rehabilitate the system in which they operate under. Without a substantial shift in policy, all reentry and rehabilitative efforts are virtually in vain. Under the existing set of rules and regulations utilized to both, keep record of offenders and to protect the general population, ex offenders are incapable of advancing or even merely integrating amongst the rest of society. Issues such as unemployment, housing restrictions, and the sex offender registry, are amongst the countless obstacles that ex offenders face …show more content…
However, others contend that the safety of the general population exceeds sex offender’s right to privacy. Research studies have been conducted to determine the sex offender registry’s effectiveness in decreasing sex offender recidivism. The vast majority of these particular investigations have concluded that there is no direct connection or benefit between the sex offender registry and recidivism rates.
Public registry may not necessarily protect children from sex crimes however; it most certainly will influence the torment, exile, and even violence against former offenders. Over the years, the public registry has broadened to include current law abiding past offenders who are not threatening sexual predators. According to USA Fair, In order to increase penalties and to expand those subject to the public registry, legislatures began classifying non-violent offenses to the public