It is well known that the labor market opportunities for former convicts are much more bleak than for non-convicts, and it is also well known that young black men are disproportionally represented among the population of convicts, among other reasons because our criminal justice system often unfairly punishes blacks and men.
Assistant Law Professor Sonja Starr from the University of Michigan, for example, found that in federal court cases that, among comparable offenders, female arrestees were, “significantly likelier to avoid charges and convictions entirely, and twice as likely to avoid incarceration if convicted.” She also found that men received 60% longer prison sentences than comparable women, with black men receiving the harshest treatments.
With these realities in mind, many progressive minded individuals and states have advocated and adopted government regulations which ban employers from doing a criminal background check on job applicants. The theory being that this regulation would protect minority job…
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