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2. Loss of rights due to criminal conviction - Wikipedia

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   The Criminal Code contains several offences related to driving a motor vehicle, including driving while impaired or with a blood alcohol count greater than eighty milligrams of alcohol in one hundred millilitres of blood (".08"), [3] impaired or .08 driving causing bodily harm or death, [4] dangerous driving (including dangerous driving causing bodily harm or death), [5] and street racing. [6]

3. Employment discrimination against persons with criminal ...

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   As of 2008, 6.6 to 7.4 percent, or about one in 15 working-age adults were ex-felons. [4] According to an estimate from 2000, there were over 12 million felons in the United States, representing roughly 8% of the working-age population. [5].In 2016, 6.1 million people were disenfranchised due to convictions, representing 2.47% of voting-age ...

4. Felony disenfranchisement in the United States - Wikipedia

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   By the American Civil War, about 24 states had some form of felony disenfranchisement policy or similar provision in the state constitution, although only eighteen actually disenfranchised felons. [ b ] [ 13 ] The Fourteenth Amendment was adopted in 1868, and by 1870 the number had increased to 28 (out of 38 states).

5. Expungement in Texas - Wikipedia

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   The 78th Texas Legislature failed to gain consensus for HB-384, which would have granted automatic expungement in the cases of acquittal, pardoning, or upon dropping of charges. [5] The 82nd Texas Legislature's passing of HB-351 and SB-462 reformed the expungement code to include relief for those convicted but later determined to be innocent. [6]

6. The Complete Money Guide for Ex-Offenders - AOL

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   The United States has a higher rate of incarceration per capita than any other nation: 698 of every 100,000 residents wind up behind bars. And when those offenders are released, they often face an ...

7. Convict leasing - Wikipedia

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   Texas began convict leasing by 1883 and abolished it officially in 1910. [18] A cemetery containing what are believed to be the remains of 95 "slave convicts" has recently (2018) been discovered in Sugar Land, now a suburb of Houston. [19] The Convict Lease System and Lynch Law are twin infamies which flourish hand in hand in many of the United ...