UPDATED: Shame on the VA for firing registrant-owned business because of bad press.
Well this is horrible… a man convicted of a sexual offense in 2007 turned his life around and started a janitorial business. He gets a contract providing janitorial services for the VA. USA today writes a story about it and the VA cancels the contract. Here we have someone who has tried to turn his life around (and seemingly was successful in doing so) gets re-punished for something he did more than a decade ago. He and the many people who work for him are fired and the agency doing the firing is the VA, who is supposed to help veterans (the man served 8 years in the Army)!
The story is offensive because it illustrates: (a) how people on the registry are barred from career opportunities everywhere, including as janitors, (b) how the label undermines rehabilitation by permanently destabilizing people, (c) how the VA can easily discard a sub-class of persons it’s supposed to be helping, and (d) how the label not only stigmatizes the registrant but anyone who chooses to give them a chance and do business with them.
You can read the full story here.
UPDATED: I’VE UPDATED THIS POST WITH A MORE IMPORTANT READ FROM GH-S. PLEASE READ THIS: https://littlereddots.substack.com/p/good-morning-i-am-full-of-rage
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They don’t want any one to succeed but if it was their golf or drinking buddies…. then got framed for it!! This man admitted his mistakes paid the price, now he should been allowed to move on with his life….But NO! if it were a different crime The haters out there would not be making waves about it.
I don’t understand how the U.S. Supreme Court allows this to Continue because they are appointed for life…And for a Christain Country who makes the Claim “2nd chance for everybody” they sure fall short of showing mercy and forgive but yet Certain key players do the same dirty deeds behide close doors and get tax dollars to pay off the victims
It just goes to show that bigotry has never left this nation. We will always have to fight tooth and nail for probably better than a century to make any true leeway.
I thought the Supreme Court ruled being on the registry was not punishment and along with the 66% recidivism rate numerous studies have shown is complete BS, is the reason we still have SORNA.
This right here is, once again, proof positive the registry is punitive. I hope the gentleman obtains representation and takes the VA to federal court. I believe he would get his contract back or at least some level of compensation for it being taken away without cause.
I believe the recidivism rate given by Justice Kennedy was 80%, making it even worse.
While y’all are focusing on the VA, how about dogging USA Today for this hit piece?
I don’t bother looking for work because of scum like Salman.
I sencond it
Same here.
I fully understand this situation. I worked in the oil industry until recently when I lost my job because my company sold to another. I am fairly certain I only lost the job because of the required employer notification for the registry. Since then I have had 2 job offers for oilfield automation which I’m highly qualified for only to have them rescinded once I notified of being on the registry. The worst part is I can’t blame the VA or the companies that didn’t hire me. The real problem is the media manipulation that has put us in this situation. I’m a veteran and a college graduate but can’t find a job because I’m also on the SOR.
That is awful for sure. I’ve never understood how the same federal government that imprisoned me, gave me on the job training in prison for rehabilitation, forced me to work for them at a whopping 35 cents per hour, and won’t hire me for any job on the outside.
Wow you got 35 cents per hour! (Sarcasm implied). The great state of Florida paid me o.oo per hour.
But the important thing to remember is its not Punative. Its a civil regulatory scheme. Except for the fact that evey time to make the slightest clearlical error you could land in prison for years. But other than that it’s not punishment.. Right? I hate to hear these stories where people are doing the right thing and then loose there job for what amounts to nothing.