Hello, I am an under-educated felon. I have been trying to get a job in SLC for over a year if not more, yet it has been a fruitless and tiring struggle. It baffles me that the state would like to keep criminals off the street and keep them from continuing to do what it is they do and yet...will not give these people jobs. I once watched a movie called Ever After..with a wonderful quote, it read as follows ": If you suffer your people to be ill-educated, and their manners corrupted from infancy, and then punish them for those crimes to which their first education disposed them, what else is to be concluded, sire, but that you first make thieves and then punish them?" This is exactly what felons are going through right now. Perhaps not in so many words, but the sentiment is there. We go to crime because we cant get work, we become felons and have to pay for our transgressions..yet have no means of doing so with out doing time. I simply need a job so i may pay off the state and get off of felony probation so i may move to arizona with my fiancee and our twin daughters and straighten out my life, yet i can not. Its the backwards thinking of employers that inhibits people like my self. I was once told, recently, by an employer (of whom shall remain anonymous) "look, if you had killed someone i could get you a job...but do to the type of felony you have my hands are tied". With that kind of logic one should respond with "how much is your life worth?" Put more simply..would you rather risk losing your life, or would you rather risk losing some money? There has to be something done about this, people are becoming worse..and some of us possibly even suicidal due to the constant struggle, and the constant failure. Im so tired of hearing how easy it is to get a job as a felon, however here is a fact for the people, it really depends on your felony as well as who you know. Mine is burglary, im trying to turn a new leaf and become a stable, successful person for my

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