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  2. 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 ...

  3. Loss of rights due to criminal conviction - Wikipedia

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    Felon jury exclusion is less visible than felony disenfranchisement, and few socio-legal scholars have challenged the statutes that withhold a convicted felon's opportunity to sit on a jury. [18] While constitutional challenges to felon jury exclusion almost always originate from interested litigants, some scholars contend that "it is the ...

  4. Felony disenfranchisement in the United States - Wikipedia

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    For a person convicted of a lesser felony, disenfranchisement ends after terms of incarceration, completion of parole, and completion of probation. In addition, the person must pay "Any court order restitution paid; current in the payment of any child support obligations; and/or Any court ordered court costs paid".

  5. Out of prison, out of work: Fayetteville felon, activist ...

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    Another barrier to employment for felons is background checks, Murphy said. She said many employers conflate a prison release date with the conviction date. “I have not been in trouble for over ...

  6. Collateral consequences of criminal conviction - Wikipedia

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    A person accused or convicted of a crime may suffer social consequences of a conviction, such as loss of a job and social stigma. These social consequences, whether or not they lead to convictions, can arise in countries where arrests and legal proceedings are matters of public record , thus disseminating the information about the event to the ...

  7. Was Trump convicted of anything? What the president-elect's ...

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    CNN reports Trump was allowed to vote in Palm Beach under a 2021 New York law granting people convicted of felons the right to vote as long as they aren't incarcerated at the time of the election.

  8. Trump is a convicted felon. Here’s why he can still vote today

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    The first former US president convicted of a felony, Trump is scheduled to be sentenced on November 26. Under Florida law, if a voter has an out-of-state conviction, Florida will defer to that ...

  9. Right to work - Wikipedia

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    The right to work is the concept that people have a human right to work, or to engage in productive employment, and should not be prevented from doing so.The right to work, enshrined in the United Nations 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights, is recognized in international human-rights law through its inclusion in the 1966 International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights ...