Obama order will
force government to hire ex-cons, 'Ban the box' measure follows massive prisoner release, by
Douglas Ernst, 11/2/15, WND
The Obama administration
has a two-pronged approach to handing federal inmates: Release them and then
make it easier for ex-convicts to work for the government.
Obama’s “ban the box”
executive orders announced Monday follow a massive release of up to 6,000 convicted drug felons Nov. 1. The measures delay the ability of
federal hiring personnel and federal contractors to find out if job applicants
have a criminal record.
“The president has
called on Congress to follow a growing number of states, cities, and private
companies that have decided to ‘ban the box’ on job applications. We are
encouraged that Congress is considering bipartisan legislation that would ‘ban
the box’ for federal hiring and hiring by federal contractors,” the White House said in a statement. “In the meantime, the president is directing
the Office of Personnel Management to take action where it can by modifying its
rules to delay inquiries into criminal history until later in the hiring
process.”
Changes in federal
sentencing rules for drug crimes made by the U.S. Sentencing Commission in 2014
may eventually free up to 46,000 inmates, the Wall Street Journal reported Oct. 6. The White House maintains it is only freeing
nonviolent offenders (mostly from California, Florida, Illinois, North Carolina
and Texas).
“We’re fooling the
public when we tell them we’re releasing nonviolent drug offenders,” Steven
Cook, head of the National Association of Assistant U.S. Attorneys, told Politico on Monday.
The Bureau of Justice
Statistics reports recidivism rates at 68 percent within three years and 77
percent within five years, Breitbart News reported Monday. Those statistics may be why a prison reform bill
is stalled in the U.S. Senate.
“When police officers
across this country are under assault right now, are being vilified, when we’re
seeing violent crime spiking in our cities across the country, I think it would
be a serious mistake for the Senate to pass legislation providing for 7,082
convicted criminals potentially to be released early,” Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas,
said Monday, Politico reported.
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