Struggle and Activism of Criminal Rights

        Ironically criminal justice is not always fair. There are great officers and terrible ones, judges who are too strict, and judges who are too flexible. There are also very skilled and talented lawyers, and very unorganized lawyers. The laws in the U.S. are unfair to minority populations, since most of these people are poor and dont have so much money to spend on top lawyers.
       Criminals who are sent free don't have the same opportunities as a person who has not gone to jail. Many of this criminals have been discriminated when they go to find a job. Discrimination in a job is not allowed by the International Labour Organisation Convention 111. It is not discrimination if a person’s criminal record states that it is unable to do a particular job. Some industries are legally obliged to deny employment to people with certain types of criminal records. These people who have been denied from a job can go to court and fight for their rights. The court would decide wether your type of criminal record can obtain the job or not. If your case cannot be resolved and the judge finds that there has been a violation of your human rights or that workplace discrimination has occurred,the judge can do a report for the federal Attorney-General.

     Everyone deserves a second opportunity, no one is perfect and everybody makes mistakes. Criminals who are free make a new life or keep living the same life as before and return to jail. Most of them who decide to make a new life start by finding a job; looking for success. If the head master don't give these people the opportunity of an employment there is a high percentage that they would return to their old lives again.


http://www.hreoc.gov.au/human_rights/criminalrecord/index.html

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