If people can be trained to do jobs despite a criminal record, then spend the money on adequately training them before they get a criminal record.
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RAMOS: ... and those who don't have a criminal record.
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Now facing a criminal record, "I don't know," he said.
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The majority of those detainees reportedly have a criminal record.
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Abram does not have a criminal record, according to Champion.
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He noted that she does not have a criminal record.
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McCabe has a criminal record but no convictions for violence.
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With a criminal record, leaving the industry can become impossible.
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Before his arrest, Michael did not have a criminal record.
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A criminal record can be a major barrier to employment.
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The police likely checked whether she had a criminal record.
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Two, there's the matter of honor versus a criminal record.
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I have a (criminal) record, and I don't like guns.
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Another significant barrier to employment is having a criminal record.
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It was later reported that he had a criminal record.
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A criminal record clean slate law is like a bankruptcy.
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Not everyone with a criminal record is a career criminal.
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As several media outlets reported, Sterling had a criminal record.
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And I had a criminal record, so what could he do?
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Authorities say he has a criminal record on the Big Island.
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Getting a job with a criminal record is often a nightmare.
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How do you keep a criminal record from poisoning your future?
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Neither of us had a criminal record or an addiction problem.
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She was not given a prison sentence or a criminal record.
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They're not a criminal record or an invader or an other.
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A criminal record creates barriers to housing, education, and certainly employment.
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It creates a criminal record, for starters, unlike a civil case.
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A criminal record is also the second most serious lie applicants tell.
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A criminal record hurts job prospects, and raises the odds of recidivism.
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The Los Angeles Times reported that Mr. Felix had a criminal record.
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Today, around one out of every three Americans has a criminal record.
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One of five Americans has a criminal record in the United States.
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"With a criminal record I won't be able to travel," he said.
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He had long a criminal record and a history of mental illness.
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First, we give Dreamers green cards provided there isn't a criminal record.
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Like he says ... he's a little too young for a criminal record.
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He did not appear to have a criminal record, Mr. Early said.
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Paris Hilton isn't the only one in her family with a criminal record.
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A suspect with a criminal record was arrested Sunday morning for the crime.
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Having a criminal record is something many celebrities (and civilians) would sooner forget.
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And another 25 percent are disqualified for drug use or a criminal record.
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Then she got a criminal record and was basically unable to leave prostitution.
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"One in three Americans of working age have a criminal record," she said.
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"You would not care if the person had a criminal record," she said.
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Clinton also said she'd focus on deporting only people with a criminal record.
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A criminal record is no longer a barrier to entry for GOP candidates.
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So, instead, they miss the chance for help and gain a criminal record.
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RAMOS: And that you won't deport immigrants who don't have a criminal record?
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If you have a criminal record involving cannabis, you're no good to us!
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Some are disqualified by the lack of a degree or a criminal record.
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For millions of Americans, a criminal record is a life sentence to poverty.
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Still, he is saddled with a criminal record, which diminishes his financial capacities.
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After expungement of a criminal record, wages increase by 25 percent on average.
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There is no bigger stigma for job seekers than having a criminal record.
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One in three Americans has a criminal record, according to the Justice Department, and a National Institute of Justice study found that having a criminal record reduced the chance of getting a job offer or a callback by 50 percent.
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Jack is a tough cookie with a criminal record who resembles a young Madonna.
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In many cases, a criminal record doesn't preclude someone from receiving Social Security benefits.
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Two-thirds of foreign fighters in Germany and the Netherlands had a criminal record.
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Mr Ramos: And that you won't deport immigrants who don't have a criminal record?
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Officials say Gomez has a criminal record and possible ties to a drug cartel.
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About 90 percent of those polled back deporting illegal immigrants with a criminal record.
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One-quarter of the workers enrolled in the WorkAdvance experiment had a criminal record.
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Rojas, who has a criminal record, told police he smoked marijuana laced with PCP.
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He would have a criminal record, cannot be a public officer, lawyer, prosecutor, etc.
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Ator had a criminal record, but there were no open warrants for his arrest.
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About as many Americans now have a criminal record as have a college degree.
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He has a criminal record dating back 10 years, court records show, WLTX reports.
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He didn't have a criminal record, he attended school, and he paid his taxes.
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Plus, he has a criminal record, he explained, which makes finding housing more difficult.
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The court, which noted her national and international stature, spared her a criminal record.
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The suspect had a criminal record including instances of violence and theft, he said.
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He accumulated a criminal record over the years, including a conviction on burglary charges.
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Somerville did not have a criminal record and the punishment prompted outrage on social media.
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It also meant sparing youngsters "the burden of a criminal record," as he put it.
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The second security source said the suspect had a criminal record but gave no details.
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Mr Berlusconi himself has a criminal record: he was convicted of tax fraud in 2013.
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Espinosa has a criminal record and is believed to be a transient, FOX 2 reported.
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Sixty percent of employers said they would "probably not" hire someone with a criminal record.
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Pitts has a criminal record, including domestic violence, felonious assault and aggravated robbery, authorities said.
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Another young man spoke about his struggle to overcome the stigma of a criminal record.
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Nathaniel Richmond, who had a criminal record, has appeared in Bruzzese's court before, Hanlin said.
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Khan was known to police, as he had a criminal record involving acts of terrorism.
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By comparison, Mr. Trump has said he will expel any immigrant with a criminal record.
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He acknowledged Hopkins had a criminal record but believed he had only two felony convictions.
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His lack of a criminal record, for instance, meant investigators had no fingerprints to work with.
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JPMorgan has now "banned the box" that asks prospective employees whether they have a criminal record.
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The man, who has a criminal record of mainly drug offenses, is the person of interest.
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Johnson has a criminal record in other states and is the suspect in a Missouri homicide.
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You don't want them to get a criminal record that prevents them from getting a job.
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The mark left by a criminal record can make it even harder to find other employment.
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He pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct, a violation, which will not result in a criminal record.
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Did it say he had a criminal record or list him in the sex offender registry?
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In other words, most had spent time in prison, or at least had a criminal record.
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Vasile, who had a criminal record, said he was pressed to drop his request for asylum.
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He said Mr. Cummins had a criminal record, but it contained nothing of a violent nature.
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How a moving violation becomes a suspended license becomes a criminal record, which becomes a moneymaker.
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She said her husband, 2470, worked as a landscaper and did not have a criminal record.
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The first two, she argues, need help, not a criminal record; the third deserves the charge.
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Migrants now need to carry a passport and show they do not have a criminal record.
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If all went well, Mr. Shafi hoped, his son could avoid prison and a criminal record.
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For starters, companies must no longer view a criminal record as an automatic disqualification for employment.
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A criminal record could further jeopardize his chances for housing or a job in the future.
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Pacheco lost his DACA protections because he had a criminal record — but the revocation wasn't automatic.
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She also had a criminal record dating back to 2010 for offenses including theft and disorderly conduct.
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After the shooting, his father said officers asked over and over if Alan had a criminal record.
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Boxes were marked to indicate no firearm was used and that neither suspect had a criminal record.
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I was 18 years old, living in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, and I didn't have a criminal record.
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One startup that stood out was 70MillionJobs: a job-placement service for folks with a criminal record.
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Arrests of immigrants without a criminal record or with minor convictions have skyrocketed under the Trump administration.
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For many, the reason they were not able to naturalize was because they had a criminal record.
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Evandro Carvalho, a state representative, said he was arrested at age 17 and had a criminal record.
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You're not going to leave high school with a criminal record, or with a son or daughter.
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The majority of individuals who are being targeted by immigration and customs enforcement had a criminal record.
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A bachelor's degree and lack of a criminal record qualified him for a position few others wanted.
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Chances are good that most of us know or know of someone who has a criminal record.
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But it is not just people living with a criminal record who are in need of help.
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I haven't created any problem, I don't have a criminal record, I didn't come here for fun.
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Only one, she said: a woman she didn't know who was spreading lies and had a criminal record.
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Did it take burdening him with, at the time, a criminal record that would taint his future forever?
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Ibrahim El Bakraoui had a criminal record, but there was no evidence of previous ties to terrorist attacks.
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The paper reports: Court records show Vasquez has a criminal record in Arizona under a different legal name.
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The market for trade jobs is saturated and having a criminal record makes getting a job even harder.
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Drivers are also subject to additional verification by local authorities to ensure they don't have a criminal record.
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By the time she was 211, BeeLee had a criminal record and had been homeless for a stint.
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Copeland called for an investigation into the incident, and reiterated that Villavicencio does not have a criminal record.
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Having a criminal record for marijuana use is damaging to people's livelihoods and life opportunities, particularly for youths.
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Given the stigma associated with having a criminal record, many employers may be concerned about protecting their reputation.
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Sanders was more unequivocal when asked whether he would promise not to deport immigrants without a criminal record.
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De Blasio said the driver is a U.S. citizen and former armed services member with a criminal record.
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Ramzi A. had a criminal record with convictions for theft, violence and drug use between 2013 and 2015.
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In some cases, the cursory check would turn up a criminal record, or a warrant, or an investigation.
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For Omar, losing his job and finding himself with a criminal record was a worthwhile price to pay.
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Surely they were more interested in uncovering a criminal record, or an illegal association with a foreign operative.
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When workers are abundant, companies have little reason to take a chance on people with a criminal record.
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Mr. Volk hired a lawyer and worried about the impact a criminal record would have on his career.
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His decades-long road to recovery was fraught with alcohol abuse, broken marriages and even a criminal record.
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Further, his insinuation that a criminal record disqualifies one from the ability to excel deserves the strongest condemnation.
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The statement adds that he wasn't tracked by Saudi security services and didn't have a criminal record there.
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Until this point, Daleiden has been notable among anti-abortion activists for his lack of a criminal record.
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Mr. Pacheco did not have a criminal record before his arrest in August 2017, according to court records.
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Mr. Abramovich has never been charged with participating in money laundering and does not have a criminal record.
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What will the gatekeepers of privilege do when confronted with gold-star applicants who have a criminal record?
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The prosecutor's office said the suspect also had a criminal record for violent theft, according to France 3.
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According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, as many as 100 million U.S. citizens have a criminal record.
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About a third of Americans have a criminal record and are given a fair chance at being hired.
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Mr. Anderson did have a criminal record, including domestic violence, weapons possession and possibly drug possession, he said.
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Mr. Anderson had a criminal record for previous weapons offenses in Hudson County in both 22017 and 22.
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According to the state judicial database, the suspect had a criminal record dating back at least 10 years.
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But there's some evidence that the stigma of a criminal record hurts job applicants more than anything else.
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Entering into one doesn't mean admitting any wrongdoing, and it won't show up on a criminal record check.
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They also said he has a criminal record in other states and is a suspect in a Missouri homicide.
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The 58-year-old has a criminal record that includes "forgery, impersonation, burglary and drug dealing," the ministry said.
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He did not have a criminal record and was not known to police, law enforcement officials said on Saturday.
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But in the United States, where he has a criminal record, gaining protective status could be next to impossible.
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Brazilians without a criminal record will be able to buy guns more easily and to keep them at home.
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None of the four had a criminal record and no DNA or physical evidence tied them to the crime.
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Crow said neither sibling had a criminal record, and there was no outward sign of any dispute between them.
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To be locked up or have a criminal record for something that is now legal—how fair is that?
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Violators of immigration law who don't have a criminal record can too be targeted for arrest under certain circumstances.
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Additional work requirements will be especially harmful to people with substance use disorders and those with a criminal record.
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At least 212 million Americans have a criminal record — that's the same number of Americans who have college degrees.
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Many professional licenses are closed to people with a criminal record — including those for cosmetologist, plumber and funeral director.
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Mr. Gonzalez was said to have faked a criminal record as a drug dealer to help him gain passage.
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Half the jobs out there, they want a criminal record, so they can pay you less than minimum wage.
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This means a criminal record is a mandatory disqualifier for large groups of occupations in states across the country.
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And as PPI noted, discrimination is a clear factor: Having a criminal record reduces callback rates by 50 percent.
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Those effects linger today, as one in five black adults in Florida remain disenfranchised because of a criminal record.
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The New Jersey bill is powerful because it combines expungement, or the clearing of a criminal record, with automation.
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They said that he had a criminal record and that he had recently been living out of his car.
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According to the Migration Policy Institute, a nonpartisan think tank, roughly 820,000 undocumented immigrants currently have a criminal record.
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Neither client has a criminal record, and both have been in the United States for more than a decade.
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That could also lead to a criminal record, which could hurt the parents further in, say, finding a job.
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If the offender, typically a teenager, lacks an ID or has a criminal record, the officer can make an arrest.
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Cards don't give you a criminal record, which matters when you're applying for college, housing, or a job later on.
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He resembled composite sketches, had a criminal record, and due to his Army training was capable of making the jump.
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An obstacle for young black people in Chicago can be a criminal record that bars them from becoming a cop.
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Police have described Smith as a married man with a young daughter who had a criminal record, according to police.
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Sayoc had "a criminal record dating back decades, including a past arrest for making a bomb threat," the WashPost reports.
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He is a 29-year-old Strasbourg resident, and officials said he has a criminal record in France and Germany.
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And in an important contrast to Trump, Clinton also opposes the massive deportation of undocumented immigrants without a criminal record.
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There are no known records of violence at the home and neither parent had a criminal record, according to authorities.
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Police had identified the suspect as Franz Wrousis, a drifter with a criminal record who mostly lived in the woods.
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They found a significant negative effect of a criminal record on employment outcomes that was substantially larger for African Americans.
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Bourgeois was an early suspect in the search for Alexis due to an alleged failed polygraph and a criminal record.
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He is a Belgian national with a criminal record but no evidence so far of previous ties to terrorist attacks.
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Even so, a background check may have revealed if he had a criminal record and, possibly, arrest records as well.
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The shooter from Mother Emanuel, Dylann Roof, had a criminal record that was not discovered within the three-day period.
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The suspect was named earlier as Franz Wrousis, a drifter with a criminal record who mostly lived in the woods.
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If she winds up with a criminal record, she'll have to wait years before she can apply for a pardon.
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Uber claimed that because the Kalamazoo shooter didn't have a criminal record, no background check could have predicted his actions.
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The donor had a history of mental illness and a criminal record, and had exaggerated his educational accomplishments, they say.
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More than 600,000 people are released from prison each year, and one in four American adults has a criminal record.
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The struggle to find stable, secure employment is one of the most common and damaging effects of a criminal record.
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It goes without saying that having a criminal record complicates efforts by formerly incarcerated individuals to obtain post-release employment.
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But Mr. Sadler's story points up other, more subtle and pervasive obstacles to voting for those with a criminal record.
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She had a criminal record and had served time for robbery to fund a past drug habit, Mr. Malone said.
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"Because of this, he will be released with a criminal record, he has no ability to seek compensation," Arnold said.
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Importantly, many Michigan licenses contain "good moral character" clauses that bar those with a criminal record from entering the field.
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He said in all seven cases, the children were separated because an adult traveling with them had a criminal record.
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But when he overslept for the trial, he had to spend 10 days in jail — despite not having a criminal record.
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At 81, Silvio Berlusconi has a criminal record (for tax fraud) and is on trial yet again (for allegedly bribing witnesses).
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White people with a criminal record received as many callbacks from employers as black people who had never committed an offence.
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The crucial thing—if they're working in a country where prostitution is illegal—is that they don't have a criminal record.
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The accused does not appear to have a criminal record beyond traffic violations, nor any social media accounts under his name.
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She also noted that her husband does not have a criminal record and said he is not a danger to anyone.
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Uber has said that its background checks couldn't have predicted Dalton's alleged behavior because he did not have a criminal record.
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Maas said the new law should help protect the hundreds of thousand of refugees who do not have a criminal record.
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However, under U.S. sentencing guidelines, defendants typically receive far less-severe punishments, particularly if they do not have a criminal record.
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He is a registered Republican with a criminal record that includes felony theft, drug and fraud charges dating back to 1991.
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Sending an unsolicited dick pic could now land you with a $500 fine and a criminal record — if you're in Texas.
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If Varnum is convicted for threatening Wilson, he will finally have a criminal record that could bar him from gun ownership.
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The burden of mass incarceration is felt most intensely by children with parents in prison or labeled with a criminal record.
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Sayoc is a registered Republican with a criminal record that includes felony theft, drug and fraud charges dating back to 1991.
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An illegal immigrant with a criminal record who was out on bond awaiting deportation is charged with murder in the case.
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The verification is also used to determine whether you have a criminal record that suggests possible money laundering or identity theft.
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States take various approaches to determining if someone with a criminal record meets that standard and will become a licensed attorney.
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He also agreed to never seek expungement of the charge, the legal process of having a criminal record erased or sealed.
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She would not say whether her client, who she said did not have a criminal record, had admitted or denied involvement.
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If a suspect has a criminal record or is known to immigration enforcement, their identity can be confirmed at the roadside.
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However, all these occupations are regulated by licensing boards, which may freely deny a license to someone with a criminal record.
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Lewis explained for BuzzFeed: Even without a criminal record, black people looking to get involved in legal weed face major obstacles.
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One of the accused also had a criminal record that included assault charges and narcotics violations, the German newspaper Die Zeit reported.
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Often family members who have a criminal record are immediately suspected to be involved in a child of color's disappearance, she said.
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Vlach now has a criminal record and a collection of mugshots, and he has spent more time in jail than Brock Turner.
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Maybe they have a criminal record like he does, or maybe they don't look or sound like what people expect them to.
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Between the lines are young people who have dropped out of school, are jobless, have a criminal record, or are a parent.
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One of his clients was an excavating contractor who couldn't get a license to buy explosives, because he had a criminal record.
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The study does not know criminal histories and therefore cannot capture the potent effect of a criminal record on employment and earnings.
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Perhaps one-in-three adults, some 70m-100m people, have a criminal record reckons the Centre for American Progress, a think-tank.
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The suit says the company failed to describe him accurately or disclose that he had a mental illness and a criminal record.
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There, they lose any job they may have had and emerge with a criminal record making it even harder to find employment.
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All of the suspects are Maltese nationals and most have a criminal record, the prime minister said, without providing any further details.
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Mr. Shumpert, who worked in construction, dreamed of being a coach, but his dreams may have been hampered by a criminal record.
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In his late teens, drinking led to fighting and a stint in jail—a criminal record that he managed to have struck.
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A criminal record can limit a person's employment and housing opportunities, making it difficult for them to transition back into their communities.
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He said Comello "has crossed paths in some limited circumstances with the NYPD" but wouldn't say whether he has a criminal record.
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But for the millions who are carrying a criminal record around for simple possession or other minor offenses under outdated laws, absolutely.
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Shea said Comello "has crossed paths in some limited circumstances with the NYPD" but wouldn't say whether he has a criminal record.
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What really worries progressive criminal justice advocates isn't the stigma of a criminal record itself, but how it reinforces existing racial stigma.
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But he also had a criminal record, having been convicted of attempted robbery in 2008 and served four years in state prison.
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A criminal record is, in effect, an additional sentence, says Mr Stacey—one that can run for the rest of a person's life.
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Paulette later admitted she'd met McCarty once, but she likes to point out that McCarty has a criminal record and can't be trusted.
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About one in three American adults possess a criminal record of some kind, barring a huge swath of the population from obtaining housing.
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Applicants need to meet certain criteria, such as arriving in the U.S. before the age of 16 and not having a criminal record.
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Hundreds of thousands of people are arrested for marijuana each year in the US — potentially leading to a criminal record or jail time.
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The detective added that the suspect was allegedly known to resell the designs and had a criminal record with "connections" in New York.
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Because he has a criminal record, he had to wait after being picked to see whether New Zealand would grant him a visa.
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The women, some of whom left prison with a criminal record, have faced stigma from their families and have struggled to get jobs.
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Some of the chapters are thin: when the deceased had a criminal record or ties to gangs, relatives were often unwilling to talk.
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"He was a young man who had the benefits of DACA, but because of a criminal record was deported to Guatemala," Barillas said.
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All of the suspects are Maltese nationals and most have a criminal record, Prime Minister Joseph Muscat said, without providing any further details.
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A second offence would also be put on a criminal record and offenders would need to attend classes highlighting the danger of prostitution.
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But the city's public housing authority disagreed: Because Marcus — a pseudonym — had a criminal record, he was ineligible to live with his family.
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He also had a criminal record and eight months in prison under his belt for a 2005 residential burglary, according to court documents.
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But he remained haunted by his past and wondered how different his life could have been if he didn't have a criminal record.
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In Tennessee, there are more than 950 restrictions based on a criminal record, including disqualification for any state-funded student loan or grant.
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Applicants enter of their own volition and are denied a visa if they have a criminal record or would rely on public assistance.
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In a 229 survey of California businesses, 25 percent said they probably or definitely would not hire an applicant with a criminal record.
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He couldn't get jobs other than menial labor, and — along with about six million other Americans with a criminal record — he couldn't vote.
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It's worth noting -- if the XFL maintained its zero-tolerance policy on players having a criminal record, Callaway wouldn't be getting this opportunity.
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After leaving jail, many no longer have access to needed healthcare and benefits because of the consequences associated with having a criminal record.
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There are conflicting reports as to whether Thomas, who lived with his mother about 20 miles away from Monsey, has a criminal record.
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In another twist, it turned out that Howard-Higgins was a con man with a criminal record, and may have fabricated information altogether.
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I don't have a criminal record, and the only crime I would ever have committed would have been directly caused by my addiction.
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Since he is over 18, it is possible he has a criminal record or has a more dangerous past he has yet to explain.
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As part of his screening for G4S, Mateen underwent a psychometric test, an ID verification test, and a criminal record check, among other measures.
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"I think he's very pleased with the prospect that this could be resolved without his having a criminal record," said Paul Shechtman, the attorney.
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For me, trying to find a job with a criminal record has been nearly as challenging, defeating, and frustrating as kicking my heroin addiction.
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Finding a job with a criminal record is extremely difficult and keeping a job is much harder while struggling with addiction, multiple economists said.
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The kidnap team consisted of four men — two Lebanese and two Britons — one of whom is an ex-police officer with a criminal record.
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The lawyer reportedly said his client intended to study cybersecurity and criminology, and told the magistrate that a criminal record would devastate those prospects.
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"A victim of serious abuse is entitled to a protective order and justice whether she has a criminal record or not," she told NPR.
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A 22018 ACLU report showed that of the 212 million Americans with a criminal record, nearly 20043 percent remain unemployed a year after release.
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California's ballot measure to legalize recreational marijuana could be a beacon of hope for anyone with a criminal record for using or possessing weed.
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He doesn't have a criminal record and was a senior at the University of Maryland, although he was not set to graduate this year.
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Kamala Harris co-sponsored a bill with her that would make it easier for people with a criminal record to get federal housing aid.
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Once the paperwork was in, Tornes had to have her fingerprints taken so the government could verify that she didn't have a criminal record.
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This week and next week, I'll look at expungement and sealing, processes which erase or block from view eligible parts of a criminal record.
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Making it illegal to require disclosing a criminal record on a job application, filing a background check only after an offer has been made.
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The MPS has also used social media to keep tabs on nearly 9,000 political campaigners, many of which reportedly don't have a criminal record.
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In fact, because of a criminal record, he now faces deportation to the Dominican Republic, which he left at age 13, 41 years ago.
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And then high court fees can be a barrier for people who are often stuck working low-paying jobs because of a criminal record.
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Diversion is intended to relieve overburdened courts and crowded jails, and to spare low-risk offenders from the devastating consequences of a criminal record.
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Dr. Bello had a criminal record, but he had been convicted of a misdemeanor, which would not have kept him from buying the gun.
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Public records show that Mr. Lindsey was arrested repeatedly over the last 15 years, with a criminal record in at least two Florida counties.
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The agency is beginning to warn landlords that it might be illegal under the Fair Housing Act to simply ban anyone with a criminal record.
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It doesn't appear Pyant has any real professional basketball experience -- but he does have a criminal record ... 13 prior arrests, according to the NY Post.
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Abbott said that Pagourtzis did not have a criminal record or a history of violent behavior, and drew a comparison to Parkland shooter Nikolas Cruz.
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It's not amnesty; it's a path to citizenship that requires people to do X, Y, Z, and not have a criminal record, yadda, yadda, yadda.
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Virts said he is working with authorities in Mexico, where Reyes is from, to learn more about him and if he has a criminal record.
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A leading contender for Zimbabwe's presidency after the retirement of Mr Mugabe, a nonagenarian, a criminal record could stymie her path to the top job.
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Ayers had a criminal record, including numerous prior arrests and convictions starting in 20153 including driving under the influence, domestic battery, assault, menacing and kidnapping.
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The move is also aimed at preventing people from being denied education, employment and housing opportunities because of having a criminal record for marijuana possession.
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Cetin has a criminal record that includes three domestic violence charges in which his stepfather was the victim, the Seattle Times reported, citing court records.
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His mother got married to a man who had kept from her the fact that he had a criminal record, and who soon became abusive.
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Many of these people may not have the proper documentation, but the agency is increasingly arresting people who also do not have a criminal record.
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She avoids the huge hurdle of finding an employer willing to overlook a criminal record by begging her father for a job at his office.
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A criminal record for drug possession—which you can get via a caution—can severely restrict people's future job prospects and ability to travel abroad.
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While some of the denials were based on national security issues, most were for people who had a criminal record or lacked a proper visa.
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Alex now had a criminal record as well as a 20-year ban, meaning he would be 40 before he could apply for a visa.
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Remember, Vince McMahon famously said he would ban any players with a criminal record from playing in his league during a media event in 2018.
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It is a coalition of companies focused on hiring "opportunity youth" facing systemic barriers such as poverty, a criminal record or transportation and education deficiencies.
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Studies have indicated that having a criminal record could reduce the likelihood of receiving a call back from a potential employer by perhaps 85033 percent.
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A criminal record is a major barrier to work, housing and education, even if the crime was minor, and even if it happened years ago.
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In the United States, you can be naturalized if your application for citizenship is somehow fraudulent (if you, for example, lied about a criminal record).
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He has a criminal record that includes convictions for perjury and insurance fraud, and he previously drew scrutiny, but not prosecution, for his political work.
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But officials also described him as a mentally disturbed man with a history of violence, a criminal record for robberies, and no clear political motive.
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Jose Giberto Rodriguez, 46, who has a criminal record dating back to 1989, was captured after a brief vehicle pursuit, Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez tweeted.
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Virts said he is working with authorities in Mexico, where Donoteo-Reyes is from, to learn more about him and if he has a criminal record.
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"We have hardly a single youngster who has a criminal record just because of drug offences," says Mr Keizer, the Dutch health ministry's drug-policy adviser.
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The practice that virtually only exists in the United States, however, is barring those with a criminal record who have already served their sentence from voting.
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The Union-Tribune reported that neither Gomez nor Suarez-Ojeda had a criminal record, according to Mexican authorities, but Robles had car theft on his record.
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Around 4m Michiganders have a criminal record, which makes it difficult or impossible for them to find work in the 150 professions that ban convicted felons.
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And how can the Church bear witness to God's justice and mercy if we simply write off the one in four Americans with a criminal record?
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Many believe that a referral to Channel earns a criminal record (it doesn't); newspapers run stories about public officials referring people over absurd misunderstandings (often exaggerated).
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According to court documents, Bullock's stalker Joshua James Corbett had a criminal record dating back to 1992 and was deemed mentally disturbed while in police custody.
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One-third of Americans don't qualify for the military because of health issues, a lack of a high school diploma or a criminal record, he added.
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These laws also prohibit employers from automatically or categorically excluding individuals with a criminal record from consideration before determining they are otherwise qualified for the position.
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These measures are designed in part to help African-American applicants, who may be more likely to have a criminal record, or to have poor credit.
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Under those policies, immigrant parents who have been in the country for many years and do not have a criminal record are not priorities for deportation.
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As a criminal justice advocate who also happens to be on parole, I know all too well of the collateral consequences of having a criminal record.
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"I haven't got a criminal record, so the chances of me being sent to jail for a first offense have to be really low," she said.
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" Minister of Public Safety Ralph Goodale wouldn't answer, saying simply that border guards "take all relevant factors into account, including the existence of a criminal record.
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While Crutcher had a criminal record, family members said he was getting his life back on track, regularly attending church, and enrolling in community college classes.
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For whites, the rates were 17 percent for those who said they had a criminal record and 34 percent for those who said they did not.
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Johnson has a criminal record in other states and is a suspect in a Missouri homicide, according to Sumter Police, who continue to investigate his past.
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The Department of Homeland Security has been clear that officials will potentially arrest and deport any undocumented immigrant without protected status, regardless of a criminal record.
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Ray's father, George, nicknamed Speedy for his slow speech, had a criminal record: he served his first prison sentence at twenty-one, for breaking and entering.
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If there is to be any lasting change to our system, people living with a criminal record must be given genuine opportunities to re-enter society.
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Those effects can be catastrophic for a person trying to eventually achieve permanent housing, as it can lead to a criminal record or eat away savings.
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Anti-hunger advocates argue most of these adults want to work, but face significant barriers to employment, like a lack of education or a criminal record.
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Professor Louden speculated that the Traveling Bandit probably has a criminal record and that he might have a background as a courier or long-haul trucker.
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He said Flowers never had a criminal record and has compiled an exemplary record while in prison, and there is evidence pointing to more likely suspects.
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" He was going to be a millionaire by the time he was 40, he decided, despite having "no education, no resources, no prospects and a [criminal] record.
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I also know this man who sent me the mail, Brian Clayton Charles, is a man with a criminal record and a long history of abnormal acts.
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The agency initially did not say if he had a criminal record but later confirmed that Arrona-Lara had an outstanding warrant for homicide charges in Mexico.
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About 40% of the formerly jailed people in the survey of 2,300 New Yorkers report that health care providers discriminate against them because of a criminal record.
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Authorities next learned Westrom had lived in Minneapolis at the time Childs was killed, and had a criminal record that included a conviction for solicitation in 2016.
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Didi said in a statement that the alleged murderer, who does not have a criminal record, had been flagged to Didi's safety team just one day before.
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A man believed to be its pilot was rescued by a fisherman and according to local media had a criminal record of trafficking women for sexual exploitation.
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In Illinois, for example, it is a crime to own a dog that has not been spayed or neutered—but only for people with a criminal record.
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Close to 800,000 undocumented people, 91% of whom work and 0% of whom have a criminal record, would be eligible for deportation if Congress does not act.
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I must have started drinking at 14, because it was at that age I got a criminal record for causing a road accident after too many lagers.
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The government has said it separates families when it suspects the parent has a criminal record or questions the relationship between the adult and the migrant child.
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Authorities have received more than 1,000 tips, but are still struggling to determine what motivated Paddock, who didn't have a criminal record, to carry out the attack.
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His alibi didn't sway the jury, and Jones, who had a criminal record, was convicted on the aggravated robbery charge and sentenced to 19 years in prison.
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Because a criminal record impedes a person's ability to obtain a job and housing — two components that greatly impact recidivism — people often reoffend and return to prison.
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Jesmer has a criminal record that includes arrests for grand larceny and driving while intoxicated, but doesn&apost have a history of violent crime, O&aposBrien said.
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But they wrought a devastating toll on communities of color nationwide, disrupting neighborhoods and depressing white and black employment rates by saddling thousands with a criminal record.
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The assailant, Khalid Masood, 52, of West Midlands, reportedly had a criminal record and may have had connections to violent extremism, British Prime Minister Theresa May says.
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So if you prevent employers from asking job applicants whether they have a criminal record — a policy known as "ban the box" — you eliminate the bias, right?
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Being convicted of sex work–related offenses also gives sex workers a criminal record, which can make it hard to find housing or non–sex work employment.
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That's where we met Antonio Smith, 46, a long-term drug user with a lightbulb-bright smile and a criminal record that stretches back to the 1980s.
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A separate 220 study in New York City found a criminal record reduced the chance of a positive response from employers by 22012 percent for black applicants.
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There is something patently unfair about letting a petty offense morph into a criminal record that dogs a person for the rest of his or her life.
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Instead, the authorities will release children to a parent once a familial tie has been established, provided the parent or guardian does not have a criminal record.
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If Loughlin or Giannulli — neither of whom have a criminal record — are convicted of the same offenses, the judge will likely hand down identical sentences, Leonard said.
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Since neither Loughlin nor Giannulli has a criminal record, if they are convicted of the same offenses, the judge will likely hand down identical sentences, Leonard says.
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His undiagnosed and untreated post-traumatic stress disorder was hard enough for him to deal with — now he had discharge papers that looked like a criminal record.
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The killer turned out to be homegrown, a 52-year-old Briton, Khalid Masood, who had a criminal record but was not on any police-monitoring lists.
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Yet even defendants who are granted diversion can discover that the central promise of the program — avoiding prosecution and a criminal record — can be an empty one.
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Among them is an instance in which a man -- with "a criminal record a mile long" -- was accused of aggravated assault against a police officer, he said.
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Chronicling the hardships of debt, relationships and keeping a family afloat—while facing the enormous struggling of attempting to re-enter the workplace with a criminal record.
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Then there's Gary from Chicago, who was an Oscar-night darling in early 2017, until the media skewered him the next day for having a criminal record.
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The list of candidates for Sunday's elections with a criminal record includes some who served prison sentences - including in the United States - for weapons possession and money laundering.
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Amri did not have a criminal record or any known connection to extremist groups, said Interior Ministry spokesman Mansour al-Turki, speaking by phone to al-Arabiya television.
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Orlando Police Chief John Mina told reporters the suspect did not appear to have a criminal record and there was no indication he and Grimmie knew each other.
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Children in programs like River View usually haven't earned a criminal record, but according to a former staff member, the staff were trained to treat students with suspicion.
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The United States loses between $78 billion and $87 billion in annual GDP by excluding people who have a criminal record from the workforce, according to the bank.
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A recent study found that about one in 30 people looking to buy guns on one website had criminal records -- one out of 30 had a criminal record.
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He had a criminal record stretching back to October 1996, when he was charged with carrying a concealed firearm when he was 18 years old, the records showed.
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Finally, the administration should work to remove unnecessary barriers that prevent people with a criminal record from getting back on their feet after they are released from prison.
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You include a couple of references—I chose two friends—and you have to disclose whether or not you have any mental health issues or a criminal record.
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The new law concerns itself not at all with personal responsibility and the deterrence and moral correction provided by prosecution, criminal penalties, a criminal record, and public shame.
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Turner had phoned—the transportation was free, the staffing company didn't ask about a criminal record or do a background check, and the pay was $214 an hour.
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And in 24, another inquest revealed that a G4S subsidiary improperly vetted an employee with a criminal record who later was convicted in Iraq of killing two colleagues.
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But the outrage over Turner's short sentence certainly makes his case more public — and perhaps exacerbates the "collateral consequences" of a criminal record that ex-convicts typically face.
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A spokesman with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) confirmed to the network that neither parent had a criminal record or broken any laws — except entering the country illegally.
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Christian L., a known pedophile with a criminal record who had previously shown an interest in abusing little girls only, then began abusing the boy, the court said.
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Diversion programs like the one she entered have become increasingly popular, offering an alternative not just to incarceration, but also to the lasting damage of a criminal record.
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Of course, Vince has vowed to ban any player with a whiff of a criminal record -- but he didn't speak specifically to marijuana use ... at least not yet.
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Though much about his wartime activities was known, the German government had not requested his extradition, and even supplied him with documents clearing him of a criminal record.
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The Ulm Theater posted a satirical counterinquiry on its Facebook page, asking the AfD to reveal how many of its lawmakers in Baden-Württemberg have a criminal record.
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Top Republicans are already standing by their incumbent and would be reluctant to jettison him for a candidate with a criminal record and a reputation for erratic behavior.
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Even if a state licensing board does not bar those with a criminal record from obtaining a license, youth completing technical training may still face barriers to employment.
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The result is that some 70 million Americans have a criminal record — a number equal to Americans with a college degree, according to the Brennan Center for Justice.
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Local TV station NBC DFW, citing unidentified law enforcement sources, said Kinnunen had a criminal record that included charges of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon in 2009.
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A license applicant is vetted to check for a criminal record, a history of violence, drug and alcohol use, and relationships with potentially dangerous people, among other factors.
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Johnson said prosecutors agreed to ask for no more than 40 years in prison and that he will argue for less, citing his client's lack of a criminal record.
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During that time, anyone with a criminal record or who had been banned from possessing a firearm because of a mental health issue could have slipped through the system.
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Luxembourg asked for the Khalafs' exact family link to be proven, and a certified copy of a travel document, as well as a criminal record excerpt for Mohamed's wife.
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Dotcom also claims that they only reason he was granted New Zealand citizenship—despite a criminal record—was so that country could hand him over to the United States.
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The immigrants caught up in "collateral arrests" last week aren't authorized to be in the US, but have never had a criminal record or been deported or ordered deported.
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His name has not been released, but the officers have confirmed that he had a criminal record, and had already served three years in prison for a previous robbery.
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Even the briefest minor interaction with the justice system can leave someone with a criminal record — and a permanent barrier to a job, housing, education or an occupational license.
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Indeed, the approach has become emblematic of over-policing in New York, imposing a criminal record on many black and Hispanic men who otherwise would not have had one.
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Then the police raided the brothel I was working in and I got a criminal record and that drew a line under all the theater education I was doing.
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The records indicated that he did indeed have a criminal record and had a restraining order against him, in order to protect a woman whom he had violently assaulted.
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As a result, there are countless black men in Baltimore whose chances of getting a good job and raising a family have suffered because they have a criminal record.
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The parole board said in a statement that Meders' lack of a criminal record before the murder and his good behavior while in prison were reasons it granted clemency.
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The ombudsman going to the Constitutional Court to ask if someone who has a criminal record can become prime minister, is that a normal question in a normal country?
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It also referenced Meders' lack of a criminal record before he committed the killing and other crimes and his good behavior while on death row for almost 30 years.
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The suspect was identified by the state broadcaster RTBF as Benjamin Herman, a Belgian born in 1982 who had a criminal record that included theft, assault and drug offenses.
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Anyone who thinks that dysfunctional countries such as Chad or Somalia have the capability to determine if someone has a criminal record or poses a threat is kidding themselves.
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But according to court records and Swedish officials, the man, identified as Nils Bildt, has a criminal record in the United States and no ties to Sweden's security establishment.
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There's even a possibility that banning the box would increase racial discrimination — by allowing employers to assume that any black or Latino job applicant probably has a criminal record.
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A criminal record can reduce the likelihood of a callback or job offer by nearly 50%, despite such overwhelming statistics of disparately punitive sentencing for minorities and false convictions.
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The government's IDENT system, which immigration staff and border officials use to visually verify an applicant's identity along with any potentially barring issues, like a criminal record (Source: FOIA) The government's IDENT system, which immigration staff and border officials use to visually verify an applicant's identity along with any potentially barring issues, like a criminal record (Source: FOIA) Everyone's file will differ, and my green card case was somewhat simple and straightforward compared to others.
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" Trump also announced a slew of efforts at the White House event, including "working to allow rehabilitated citizens with a criminal record for both federal government jobs and affordable housing.
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Under the guidelines, a landlord, or someone else determining whether to offer someone a home, might be able to use a criminal record to make a decision about a tenant.
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But when pressed on whether those who have been living in Texas' affected areas, and were undocumented, Bossert reiterated the White House's priority to deport those with a criminal record.
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At the end of the four-week workshop, the court decides if a juvenile participant's case will be closed and sealed to avoid an adult sanction and a criminal record.
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They are often released with little more than some spare change, a bus ticket and a criminal record that bars access to some of their most basic rights and privileges.
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Nathaniel Richmond already had a criminal record when his son went on trial: He was found guilty of attempted murder and incarcerated for five years when Ma'lik was a child.
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While both the Obama and Trump administrations have said that deporting criminals is a priority, lawmakers say that there has been no sign of a criminal record in Chavarria's past.
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He also had a criminal record for sale of a controlled substance in New York state, Thomas Mailey, spokesman for the New York Department of Corrections and Community Supervision, said.
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Except for marijuana, there is little support for decriminalizing drugs to remove the threat of arrest, jail time, and a criminal record for possession of small amounts of a drug.
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"From the very beginning, he said the good people would return, he was open to the idea of people without a criminal record living in the United States," Aguilar said.
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This would provide some relief for undocumented immigrants already in the U.S. who do not have a criminal record — they would be the lowest priority for arrest, detainment and deportation.
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In a letter to The Times after the articles on the Bronx criminal justice system, Mr. Vega, who acknowledges having a criminal record, said he had not killed Mr. Gaston.
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They separate children from parents if they believe documents to be fraudulent, the parent has a criminal record, they can't prove parentage, or the child appears to be at risk.
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"Her son had a criminal record and would have been sent to jail if found guilty, so she went to the station and said it was her crop," said Margaret.
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In a few "ineligible" cases, the parent has a criminal record; in others, the child has already been released to a different sponsor (usually a relative living in the US).
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The legal aftermath of the death of Mr. Jones, who did not have a criminal record and was a church band member, heightened scrutiny of the Stand Your Ground law.
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So there's finally real business interest in the 230 percent of adults in America who have a criminal record, which the F.B.I. defines as an arrest on a felony charge.
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The 2015 killing of Mr. Jones, a church band member without a criminal record, became a flash point in a string of contentious shootings of black men by the police.
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Over the weekend, Mr. Bolsonaro announced he would issue an executive order allowing civilians without a criminal record to purchase weapons to keep at home or work for self-protection.
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He passed the background check at the end of the month, and court records state that Mr. Pacheco did not have a criminal record before his arrest in August 2017.
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Unlike people facing criminal charges, ICE detainees have no right to a lawyer to look out for their interests, and many do not speak English or have a criminal record.
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Many young people enter prison without ever having held a job, and upon release they face the daunting challenge of finding employment with a criminal record and a blank résumé.
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Among them is an instance in which a man -- with "a criminal record a mile long" -- was accused of aggravated assault against a police officer and granted bail, he said.
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While the government and opposition both back judicial reform, the opposition first wants to see implementation of a new law to kick anyone with a criminal record out of politics.
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According to the local newspaper, Judge Barbara Bailey Jongbloed said that she had considered Dionne's lack of a criminal record and the seriousness of the offense in crafting the sentence.
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They become more likely to live in poverty as their families often suffer a permanent loss of income from having an incarcerated parent or a parent with a criminal record.
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Diversion was created nationwide to spare first-time or low-risk defendants the harsh consequences of a criminal record and to give prosecutors more time to go after dangerous offenders.
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Setting a cap also wouldn't address other problems in the justice system, from the death penalty to the stigmatization that follows a criminal record to poor conditions in prisons generally.
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Cheffou was reportedly known to police for a criminal record that involved drugs and violence, but had not been previously linked to terrorism, Belgian daily regional newspaper La Capitale reported.
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A common response to the outcry over police misconduct is to almost immediately blame the victim — he had a criminal record, he didn't listen to the police, and so on.
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But under the Trump administration, they — just as much as any unauthorized immigrant with a criminal record, or someone who just crossed the border last month — are fair game for deportation.
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This type of excessive vetting, he said, should only be done if there is a reasonable doubt that the adult is not the parent or if they have a criminal record.
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That means New York businesses wanting to hire someone with a criminal record are often denied the coverage, said New York Department of Financial Services Superintendent Maria Vullo in a statement.
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Andrés Moreno II, one of the attorneys who is representing Morales-Luna, said she doesn't have a criminal record and was not involved in smuggling as part of a criminal organization.
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The startup is starting its efforts with job recruitment, working with companies like Uber, but Bronson hopes the startup becomes a hub for providing services to those with a criminal record.
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There are legitimate reasons why an able-bodied person can't find work, like having child care or elder care responsibilities, undiagnosed mental illness, a lack of skills, or a criminal record.
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His administration recently devoted $8m to job training and education for ex-offenders and is pushing Congress to prohibit federal employers from asking job applicants if they have a criminal record.
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Employers who cannot legally check for criminal history instead avoid applicants they believe are likely to have a criminal record, and this leads them to avoid interviewing young people of color.
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However, customers complained on Twitter about Evans' involvement with the company stating her past use of homophobic slurs and a criminal record made her unfit to represent the family-focused label.
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Bringing down these barriers of entry for those with a criminal record, particularly in occupations without a close relationship to a prior conviction, would make for an easier reentry to society.
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But Jordan said last week that one of the initial accusers, former Ohio State wrestler Mike DiSabato, has a criminal record and a "vendetta" against both the school and Jordan's family.
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In the land of the free, a criminal record should not mean a lifetime disqualification from opportunity — opportunity to build a better life after a mistake, for oneself and one's family.
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It's said that the punishment ought to fit the crime, but that adage is coming undone now that having a criminal record has become a lifelong sentence for millions of Americans.
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In a separate statement issued on Thursday, the elections commissioner noted SNC's full cooperation during the probe and said the compliance agreement did not leave the company with a criminal record.
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Justice Murphy is expected to grant Mr. Gloe youthful-offender status, a designation meant to "relieve the eligible youth from the onus of having a criminal record," according to state law.
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Many of the people we reported as likely homosexual would undergo the "released procedure," meaning they would be fired or dishonorably discharged, which is almost a bad as a criminal record.
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Kim Ogg, the district attorney in Houston's Harris County, created a pre-charge diversion program for low-level marijuana offenses, which will allow many non-citizens to avoid a criminal record.
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But a lack of a criminal record, apart from immigration offenses, can help to persuade the government to let individuals remain free while they await an administrative decision about their status.
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Expunging a criminal record, however, does not assist a person who is applying for a license, for example, in law, real estate and medical fields, or for that matter most professions.
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"When 70 million individuals across the country have a criminal record, mass incarceration can only be categorized as an epidemic due to decades of misguided policies and practices," the website says.
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Shynika, 26, an intermittently homeless fast-food worker, hopes to become a nurse; Greg, a young single father with a criminal record, needs to provide for a daughter who has epilepsy.
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But according to Swedish officials and American court records, Mr. Bildt has no known ties to Sweden's security establishment and has a criminal record of his own in the United States.
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Robison was accused of illegally purchasing them on Rowold's behalf, though authorities belatedly discovered that Robison, too, had a criminal record that should have prohibited him from buying them as well.
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Chief Michael Gerke of the Odessa Police Department said the gunman, who had been fired from a trucking job, had used an AR-15-style rifle, but had a criminal record.
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Pretrial diversion is an alternative to court in the U.S. intended to spare first-time or low-risk offenders the consequences of a criminal record, freeing prosecutors to pursue dangerous criminals.
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Voters will choose between Mark Rutte's ruling center-left party and the party of Geert Wilders — a fiercely anti-Muslim, far-right candidate with a criminal record for inciting racial hatred.
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But first, Luxembourg officials said, they must see the family's passports and a document, certified by President Bashar al-Assad's administration, to prove Khalaf's wife Ghufran did not have a criminal record.
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While police are not looking for any additional suspects, they are investigating whether anyone aided Patterson, who does not have a criminal record and was not employed, in order to evade detection.
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"Their actions can cause fear and anxiety to other people, this could be perceived as intimidating and threatening which could lead to public order offences, arrest and a criminal record," Chief Supt.
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The plan is for it to be a diversion system, which means anyone arrested or charged for having small amounts of illicit substances would not face incarceration or having a criminal record.
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In addition to border crossings, early data from US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) also shows an uptick in arrests of undocumented immigrants in the US -- especially ones without a criminal record.
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Mexico's Secretary of Security and Citizen Protection Alfonso Durazo Montaño said however, that contrary to the Israeli embassy's statement, Mexican authorities say the Israelis did not have a criminal record in Mexico.
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There are 85033 million people behind bars at a cost of $70 billion per year, 2.7 million children with a parent in prison, and over 65 million people with a criminal record.
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Occupational licensing reform is an important component in reducing recidivism, because those with a criminal record who find steady employment in a field they enjoy are less likely to return to crime.
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Offenders in Spain are typically imprisoned for financial crimes only if the sentence is at least two years or if they already have a criminal record, neither of which applies to Messi.
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Because of collaboration between our organizations, that woman's convictions were vacated, and she could move forward without being haunted by a criminal record for prostitution offenses she had been forced to commit.
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In courts across the U.S., low-level offenders can get a chance to avoid the devastating consequences of a criminal record, taking classes and doing community service through a program called diversion.
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Shortly before federal authorities arrested Cesar Sayoc Jr. — a registered Republican with a criminal record whose social media accounts were filled with right-wing conspiracy memes — the president was back on Twitter.
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Then police would know whether the person was driving a stolen car, had a criminal record or was on a terrorist list — and might be dangerous — before walking up to the car.
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" Jobs depend on a host of factors outside of a person's control, including "the unemployment rate, childcare issues, lack of transport to available jobs, discrimination, a criminal record, or health care problems.
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In a study of military members, experts found that among 1.3 million ex-felons in the military, those with a criminal record performed as well or better than those with no record.
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While the gunman in the latest attack had a criminal record, there were no open warrants for his arrest when the police tried to pull him over Saturday afternoon, Chief Gerke said.
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While they favor deporting anyone with a criminal record, they are eager to keep those who work in the fields picking crops, arguing that few people are willing to take those jobs.
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They were also working on the Ban the Box campaign—a movement to get rid of the box on employment applications that you have to check if you have a criminal record.
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Upon request, Roomi will also use a third-party agency for optional background checks to make sure its users — both those listing the rooms and prospective roommates — don't have a criminal record.
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The Italian police now stop over 200,000 people every day, with more than 50,000 already facing charges that incur a fine or up to three months in prison—and a criminal record.
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Odessa Police Chief Mike Gerke told a news conference on Sunday that the gunman had a criminal record, but there were no open warrants for his arrest, per the New York Times.
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A violation is not a crime, so he will not have a criminal record, and after a year without incident, the violation would be dismissed from public records, according to the DA's office.
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The Obama-era program protected from deportation about 750,000 people who came to the US as children and spent most of their lives here, as long as they didn't have a criminal record.
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When the officers ran everyone's IDs, they discovered that a 23-year-old Jose Luis Conde, a landscape worker riding as a passenger, had a criminal record, including previous gun and drug charges.
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"I can't be a vet tech with a criminal record," she said, noting she can't afford to go back to school this fall and has already been turned down for a few jobs.
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The alleged assailant in this case, Dimitrios Pagourtzis, did not appear to have a criminal record or, so far as we know, any previous interactions with police or worrisome concerns from the community.
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Of the parents the government claims are ineligible for reunification, two are in state or federal custody, 136 "waived" reunification rights when interviewed, 91 had a criminal record or were otherwise deemed ineligible.
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To hire quickly, the startup has widened its recruiting drive to include candidates with a criminal record — something it has been advising its customers to consider with unemployment rates at all-time lows.
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One in three Americans have a criminal record and nearly half of U.S. children have a parent with a record, presenting life-long barriers to opportunity—including employment, education, housing—for entire families.
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One, named in the prosecutor's statement as Abderamane A., has a criminal record in France, according to press reports from the time of his trial that gave his full name as Abderahmane Ameroud.
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So what actually happens if you're caught in possession of drugs in Bristol under this new scheme, and take the offer of completing a drug education workshop instead of getting a criminal record?
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The suspect, it turned out, was a Turkish immigrant described by acquaintances as a sometimes-religious man with a criminal record who may have been entangled in a dispute with his ex-wife.
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Ms. Bergeron declined to give additional information about the case but noted that "over 40 percent of all juvenile offenders receive some sort of diversion," which keeps them from having a criminal record.
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Mr. Sadler took the job, and traveled around the state in support of a 2004 state law that made it easier for people with a criminal record to regain the right to vote.
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Managing Partner Alex Iskold said that when Giorgi first told him about the clause, it immediately seemed like a "no brainer," and compared disclosing allegations of sexual harassment to disclosing a criminal record.
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Nearly one in three working-age adults has a criminal record, so businesses must be willing to hire qualified applicants from this vast pool of nontraditional applicants, or else face a competitive disadvantage.
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"My client was not involved in the stabbing or in possession of any weapon," Ms. Kaplan told the Family Court judge, Carol Goldstein, adding that her client does not have a criminal record.
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While questions remain about Niec's immigration status, his background and the reason for his detention, his situation offers a cautionary tale for permanent residents with a criminal record, immigration lawyer Charles Kuck said.
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While Kramp-Karrenbauer was less critical of Merkel's migrant policy than her rivals in the leadership contest, she has argued that migrants must learn German and those with a criminal record cannot stay.
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"Those with a criminal record, or those charged with sabotage such as setting fire to motorcycles or damaging public buildings have been referred to judicial authorities," governor Alireza Rashidian told the ISNA news agency.
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The National Network to End Domestic Violence now recommends that advocates helping survivors figure out what to do should consider whether the survivors have a criminal record, as the El Paso survivor allegedly did.
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The Trump administration should pursue measures to secure America's borders and prevent unauthorized migration, but the cost of mass deportations of undocumented immigrants without a criminal record is a misguided and ultimately harmful policy.
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A criminal record makes it difficult for a sex trafficking victim to transition into "above-ground employment" and a "life free of stigma," according to the Hawaii State Commission on the Status of Women.
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But earlier this week, Johnson was arrested for alleged violations of her probation, including associating with someone who has a criminal record, leaving the state without permission, and failing to report a speeding ticket.
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They see kids getting arrested for marijuana, getting in prison, getting a criminal record, while they see executives on Wall Street who pay billions of dollars in settlements and get no prosecution at all.
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For a moment it seemed as though these horrors—and the fact that the shooter in Texas had a criminal record that had never been entered into national criminal databases—might inspire political change.
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Ever since the old practice of marking convicts by mutilating their ears or branding their skin had been abolished, police had lacked a reliable system to determine if a person had a criminal record.
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Low-income defendants, even those who are innocent, are thus encouraged to accept a plea bargain — which can lead to time in prison and a criminal record — just to get out of jail sooner.
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Macario's lawyer said that her client was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement when he "stopped to get coffee" after work, and does not have a criminal record outside of driving without a license.
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So Austria takes digital fingerprints of everyone entering the country, checks whether they have a criminal record, but does not save the data if they want to move on to Germany, which most do.
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On immigration, he avoided any mention of his plan to build a wall along the border with Mexico or his desire to deport immigrants here illegally, whether or not they have a criminal record.
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Someone arrested for it could get a criminal record, have her driver's license suspended, lose student financial aid, be banned from public housing, have a harder time securing a job or potentially get deported.
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" And she has the sobering realization that pot is a privilege American teenagers can enjoy, but not undocumented kids: "If I got caught, I'd have a criminal record that could be grounds for deportation.
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The police in Henderson — who said in their affidavit for a warrant that Mr. Decoste had a criminal record that included episodes of home invasion, burglary and battery — are seeking to have him extradited.
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He didn't have a criminal record, according to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, although police in nearby Dormont had been in contact with him in the past for reasons that were still unknown Monday morning.
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The case gained national attention this week as an example of the Trump administration's aggressive policy of deporting immigrants living in the country illegally — regardless of whether or not they had a criminal record.
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By making clean slate policies a reality at both the state and federal levels, we can move our country toward a future where a criminal record is no longer a life sentence to poverty.
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In at least one instance, a therapist was dispatched to the hotel room of a man with a criminal record for a sex crime, whom she says proceeded to grope and sexually harass her.
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The government has said it separates families when it suspects the parent has a criminal record, a communicable disease, or when there are questions about the relationship between the adult and the migrant child.
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In a November 2012 letter to DCJS, attorneys from CLEAR and the Fordham University School of Law protested the placement of watchlist information on rap sheets, because it does not establish a criminal record.
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The grim reality of American justice is that there are 2.3 million people behind bars, five million on parole or probation, 20 million with felony convictions and over 70 million with a criminal record.
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Voting-rights advocates allowed that participation appears low but say that is a diversion from their central premise: that people should not be denied the right to vote as punishment for a criminal record.
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"Those with a criminal record, or those charged with sabotage such a setting fire to motorcycles or damaging public buildings have been referred to judicial authorities," governor Alireza Rashidian told the ISNA news agency.
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Our criminal justice system has grown so out of control that an estimated 70 million Americans have a criminal record -- meaning virtually every American has a friend, neighbor or loved one who's been impacted.
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Take another look at that chart from the Milwaukee study about the effect of a criminal record on a callback: The biggest difference in the study wasn't between applicants with and without criminal records.
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The police said that while the suspect - a 23-year-old local man with a criminal record - had not given a motive, preliminary investigations supported the view the man had chosen his victims at random.
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So does the pain of potential penalties, since a third offense within 22016 years comes with a fine of up to $270,500, a criminal record, and the possibility of up to six months in jail.
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"As a general principle removing the stigma of a criminal record for people who have served their sentence and then shown themselves to be law abiding citizens, enhances public safety for all Canadians," said Goodale.
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One reason for bipartisanship is that the criminal justice system has affected so many people — 30 percent of American adults have a criminal record, which the F.B.I. defines as an arrest on a felony charge.
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This includes things like the number of people who are excluded from public housing due to a criminal record, poverty statistics that incorporate incarcerated people and the number of police departments that use stingray technology.
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An estimated 70 million Americans – roughly 20 percent of the population – have a criminal record of some kind, and no one would say that these people should be barred from working or unduly discriminated against.
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Before the speech, Southphommasane used a tweet to accuse Sky News Australia television of "a shameful low" by broadcasting an interview on Sunday with an Australian neo-Nazi who has a criminal record for violence.
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After the service, Sanders declined to answer questions about the "Charleston Loophole," a provision that allows someone with a criminal record to buy a gun if their background check is not completed within three days.
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But going after someone like Hernandez, who has a criminal record, makes it easier for ICE to offer statistics showing it really is rounding up "criminal immigrants" as Trump promised to do before taking office.
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Cory Booker were particularly sharp in their criticism of Biden, repeatedly asking him to account for the Obama administration's decision to deport millions of undocumented immigrants, including those who did not have a criminal record.
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The United States has more than 2 million people behind bars, recent FBI statistics indicate that we arrest more than 85033 million annually, and we have more than 70 million adults with a criminal record.
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You also need proof of up-to-date vaccinations and proof that you don't have a criminal record (how the city justifies taking the dogs of people with criminal records is a whole other question).
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Mr. Eberstadt estimates that for men with a criminal record between 45 and 54, the odds of being out of the work force are 35 percent for white males and 40 percent for black males.
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Today, Florida disenfranchises almost 1.5 million of its citizens, more than 11 states' populations and roughly a quarter of the more than six million Americans who are unable to vote because of a criminal record.
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Voters learned about Mr. Gillum by word of mouth and through highly produced web videos — including the one launching his candidacy, in which he noted each of his three older brothers had a criminal record.
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The police requests for the warrants, which were unsealed after The New York Times and several Canadian new organizations argued in court for their release, reveal that Mr. Hussain did not have a criminal record.
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Entrepreneurship Tight labor markets and simple compassion are among the reasons that small businesses are getting behind fair-chance employment, a movement to level the playing field for job hunters who have a criminal record.
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The police said that Mr. Moller Olsen had a criminal record for dealing hashish in Greenland, and that about $2 million worth of the drug had been found on the ship when he was arrested.
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During an hourlong presentation, students quizzed Mr. Arrisola about benefits, opportunities for promotions and his company's willingness to hire older workers (the oldest student in the class is 76) and people with a criminal record.
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The court, noting that a judge had previously invalidated the payout in a 2015 ruling and that she had "national and international" stature, decided not to punish Ms. Lagarde and spared her a criminal record.
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"During his time in Saudi Arabia, Khalid Masood did not appear on the security services' radar and does not have a criminal record in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia," the Saudi embassy in London said.
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Niec reportedly pled guilty to the charges under the Holmes Youthful Trainee Act, which helps young first-time offenders keep charges off of a criminal record, but ICE does not honor the state plea agreement.
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Parlatore recently submitted Kerik's name for a pardon that would wipe clean a criminal record from a 2009 guilty plea for tax fraud and false statement charges and a since-completed four-year prison sentence.
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I never understood it and I never got used to it — by just admitting what they knew to be true, they might have easily salvaged their career, mitigated corrective action or avoided a criminal record.
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Immigrant activists have long criticized this message for drawing a false distinction between "good" and "bad" immigrants — and have pointed out simply having a criminal record doesn't mean one isn't also the victim of discriminatory enforcement.
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Letter To the Editor: Re "Labels Like 'Felon' Are an Unfair Life Sentence" (editorial, May 8): Far too many people struggle to overcome the nearly insurmountable obstacle that a criminal record represents in the job market.
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According to the news agency, Superior Court Judge Linda Krese said in court that she could not give Varela a sentence longer than two years and 10 months because he does not have a criminal record.
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Since taking office, Trump has expanded Homeland Security removal guidelines to include people without a criminal record, detained immigrants at their ICE check-ins regardless of their standing, and expanded denaturalization actions against naturalized U.S. citizens.
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Economic hardship often continues after release: A criminal record creates substantial obstacles to employment that could increase with the amount of time served, and incarceration decreases earnings by 10 to 40 percent, compared with similar workers.
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New York was the first state to pass such a law in 2009, and almost every state in the country has taken some steps toward relieving survivors of the burden of a criminal record since then.
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None of us had a criminal record, and luckily, the jail was full, so we were released under the promise that we'd return two days later for a hearing in the small town of Fillmore, Utah.
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Believe it or not, every year, in the courts where we offer these services, hundreds and sometimes thousands of defendants are sentenced to community-based services, often avoiding jail and the stigma of a criminal record.
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Printing a gun doesn't require a background check or any documentation, offering a workaround for people who are legally prohibited from buying a gun now due to, say, a criminal record or history of mental illness.
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It is undeniable that fewer of these helpless children would be brought to our border if the migrants were not under the impression that all you have to do is show up without a criminal record.
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So for guidance he called an old friend in Bladenboro, L. McCrae Dowless Jr., a low-level local official with a criminal record who nonetheless had once been feted as "guru of elections" in Bladen County.
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The Perry preschoolers' offspring are more likely to have graduated from high school, gone to college and found jobs, and less likely to have a criminal record than their peers whose parents lacked the same opportunity.
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Every five years, the government encourages citizens over the age of 18 without a criminal record — about 900 million people this year — to choose representatives for local People's Congresses, the lowest level of the Chinese Legislature.
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A criminal record did not prevent you from getting a Pell Grant, but the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act, which Congress passed in 1994, forbade awarding Pell Grants to people who were still incarcerated.
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The lawyer asked the court to consider Lederman's lack of a criminal record in sentencing, and suggested that he warranted "non-conviction" - under Israeli legal procedure, an accelerated expunging of the assault case from his files.
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A clear path for significant and popular reform exists, and red states like Texas, Georgia, South Carolina, and Kentucky have made great strides in helping people living with a criminal record get back on their feet.
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In the three other cases, an adult traveling with the children had a criminal record that included offenses such as drug dealing, aggravated assault or being previously deported, Mr. Owen said in a call with reporters.
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Because he apologized and signed a peace bond ordering him to stay away from Borel for a year and not possess weapons, the Crown prosecutor withdrew the sexual assault charge, ensuring Ghomeshi won't receive a criminal record.
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"Decriminalizing street vending is a humane, critical first step toward protecting hard-working Angelenos who are trying to make an honest living and should not have to worry about a criminal record," Garcetti said in a statement.
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But another important measure on the ballot on November 47th drew the support of nearly 65% of Florida voters: an amendment to the state constitution lifting a permanent ban on voting by anyone with a criminal record.
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Printing a gun doesn't require a background check or any documentation, offering a workaround for people who are legally prohibited from buying a gun now due to, say, a criminal record or a history of mental illness.
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Printing a gun doesn't require a background check or any documentation, offering a workaround for people who are legally prohibited from buying a gun for reasons such as a criminal record or a history of mental illness.
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The Prez claims he's watched the video footage of A$AP's street brawl in Stockholm, which shows him trying to play peacemaker before finally losing his cool and absolutely pummeling his attacker, who has a criminal record.
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Matthew Thorton, an inmate with a reputation for causing trouble and a criminal record that details two decades of drug arrests and small-time crimes, was attacked as he came out of the shower in his cell.
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Like his brother, he, too, is a Belgian national with a criminal record, although he was also the subject of a "red notice" issued by Interpol in 2015, which called for his arrest on unspecified terrorism charges.
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In a time when one in three American adults has a criminal record and every single American family is impacted by our broken justice system, supporting reform not only makes for sound policy but also smart politics.
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Though he'd be a straight-laced Marine officer only a few years later, Mattis remembered the favor done to him by the judge who sentenced him to time but didn't "ruin my future" with a criminal record.
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The policies came under renewed attack last year, after a young woman was shot by an immigrant with a criminal record who lived in the state illegally and had been released by the authorities in San Francisco.
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I believe my friend did not know this was a scam, but I also believe she did not do due diligence in scoping out the background of the sellers of the securities, who have a criminal record.
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According to public data analyzed in a Brennan Center report, arrests of immigrants without a criminal record — that is, people who have been convicted of no offense other than violating immigration laws — more than doubled in 22019.
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Jose had a criminal record—a nonviolent drug charge from over 20 years ago, for which he had been deported, along with the crime of reentering the country shortly thereafter to be reunited with his young children.
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Imagine how many Americans could get a mortgage and buy a home if millions of Americans no longer had a criminal record (and imagine how many new Carrier furnaces and air conditioners would be sold and installed).
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" Giorno said she would have been more concerned about opposing candidates trying "to infiltrate our campaign, or whether someone who was trying to represent the campaign had a criminal record, or had the right character or background.
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Some people will commit murder, theft, or other crimes even if they're all prohibited, but there will be extra costs involved — the threat of incarceration, a criminal record, public humiliation, and so on — that likely deter others.
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Ted Cruz, R-Texas, is expected to introduce the "Protect Kids and Parents Act" which will mandate that immigrant families remain together unless there's a criminal record or a threat to the children, the Austin American Statesman reported.
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CARACAS (Reuters) - After Venezuelan police officers clad in black military uniforms and masks stopped 27-year-old Yohendry Fernandez at gunpoint in the Caracas slum of Jose Felix Ribas, they asked him if he had a criminal record.
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The structural barriers we've created for those who seek an education while in prison but can't afford it contributes to large-scale unemployment: 27% of Americans with a criminal record are unemployed, according to the Prison Policy Initiative.
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There are four states that have decriminalized possession of cannabis, Beyrer said , and in these states, the rates of young people -- and disproportionately black and Latino youth -- going to jail and getting a criminal record will probably decrease.
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The change particularly affects African-Americans in California, who were five times as likely to get arrested for a marijuana felony than white offenders, and thus disproportionately saddled with the lifelong constraints that come with a criminal record.
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He said he has a criminal record and will be serving jail time for something unrelated to these devices, but when it comes to tech, Evan described himself more as a hobbyist than some sort of hardened crook.
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And if you were going to do it, you'd want to be paid a lot more than for carrying the rum—to cover the risk you are taking of getting a criminal record, or of going to prison.
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Amber Alerts are issued only when an abducted child is in danger of serious bodily harm or death and Ligurgo did not have a criminal record or history of violence and had never harmed Jovani, state police said.
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The Americans I spoke with generally consider having to get a license an affront to their personal liberty, but on a practical level, unless you have a criminal record or something to hide, I don't see the issue.
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"If he wins the appeal he no longer will have a conviction so he will no longer have a criminal record, and he won't be required to register as a sex offender," legal analyst Dean Johnson told NBC.
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" Bennett added that women who are sent to prison will eventually see mental health professionals after a phase of becoming more distressed and often self-harming, "[but] you shouldn't have to get a criminal record to get treatment.
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Officials said that Mr. Krasimirov, who did not seem to have known Ms. Marinova, lived in Ruse, near the area where her body was found, and that he had a criminal record for the theft of scrap metal.
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Under some, criminal-history inquiries must wait until a job offer is made; others preclude denying employment solely based on the existence of a criminal record; 11 states mandate the removal of criminal-history questions by private employers.
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Even if all 1.4 million Floridians with a criminal record were re-enfranchised tomorrow, the Republicans have already achieved one of their key goals: to foster confusion and uncertainty, which can discourage many eligible voters from turning out.
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It documents how the burden of a criminal record is imposed disproportionately and unfairly on minorities of limited means, frequently through unreviewable decisions of prosecutors, effectively re-creating the peonage that replaced slavery immediately after the Civil War.
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By extending a hand to those with whom we disagree and finding common ground, we can help people living with a criminal record take the long, hard road of redemption by having the humility to walk it ourselves.
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Wright has a criminal record which includes multiple arrests for drinking under the influence of alcohol, has six driver's license suspensions to his credit as well as convictions for assaulting a police officer or firefighter and marijuana possession.
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The prime minister accused some betting firm owners of having a criminal record and links to organized crime and said a special task force would be set up to shut down any online gambling sites operating in the country.
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Video The Department of Justice said of the 102 separated children, 27 of them cannot be reunited because their parents either have a criminal record, they have been proven not to be the parents, or have been deemed unfit.
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A major sporting goods dealer in San Antonio later confirmed that Kelley twice passed a required criminal background check when he bought guns there during the past year, despite having a criminal record that should have prevented those purchases.
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For Layleen, her missed sessions with the diversion court left her with a criminal record, but also was the reason why she had bail set on her case, and her pre-trial incarceration at Rikers is what killed her.
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Once a subscriber to the purportedly "tough on crime" policies which characterized Congress's approach to justice, Ryan changed his tone in recent years as he toured impoverished communities and learned of the stigma which comes with a criminal record.
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She contended a letter that a lawyer for Cosby sent the newspaper called her a liar by saying the article was "defamatory," characterizing her claims as "wild" and suggesting she had a criminal record by citing other accusers' crimes.
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Under current federal law, licensed dealers are required to run a background check to make sure that a buyer doesn't have a criminal record, history of mental illness, or another factor that legally bars him from purchasing a gun.
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It's better than having a criminal record, sex workers and their advocates say, but women who don't comply can still end up in jail, and some of those who attend say they resent being forced into the mandated counseling.
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Homeless advocates also warned council members and the city's mayor that homeless people wouldn't reasonably be able to pay the fine, that the packed shelters are cruel, and that a criminal record would make many people unable to rent.
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On the negative, prison can lead to more criminality — by connecting inmates to social networks of people in gangs or other criminal activity, or by making it much harder to get a legal job due to a criminal record.
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The report doesn't factor in the food security that SNAP provides, and the range of reasons people may not be be able to work, like undiagnosed mental illness, or a criminal record that may make the job search challenging.
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When pressed by Mr. Díaz-Balart about whether he would deport undocumented immigrants without a criminal record, Mr. Biden did little to clarify his specific stance, instead defending the Obama administration's policies that deported roughly three million undocumented immigrants.
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Thanks to a treatment court program that allowed me and others in rural America to walk away from the justice system and into a life of health and recovery that I love, I no longer have a criminal record.
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"During his time in Saudi Arabia, Khalid Masood did not appear on the security services' radar and does not have a criminal record in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia," the embassy said in a statement on its Twitter account.
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That is clearly the right outcome, but it's little comfort to the thousands of people wrongly imprisoned — some for years — or the thousands more who have continued to suffer the effects of a criminal record after they were released.
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Occupational licenses are regulated at the state level and, in many cases, despite receiving the training to practice in a field, an individual with a criminal record will be ultimately prohibited from receiving the licensing he or she needs.
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When applicants had personal contact with their would-be employers, applicants with criminal records had a better chance of getting called back: "Personal contact appears to mediate the effect of a criminal record, reducing its negative impact," Pager wrote.
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Under current federal law, licensed dealers are required to run a background check to make sure a buyer doesn't have a criminal record, history of mental illness, or any other factor that legally bars him from purchasing a gun.
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In civil defamation cases, plaintiffs must show they were materially harmed by someone else's words; for example, malicious rumours spread by a business rival to destroy a company; or a criminal record invented by an ex-lover to destroy a career.
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In a few cases, the parent has a criminal record that the government thinks is disqualifying; in some others, the Office of Refugee Resettlement has already released the child to a different sponsor (sponsors are usually relatives living in the US).
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"First and foremost, the President has been very, very clear that we need to direct agencies who address those who are in this country illegally and have a criminal record or pose a threat to the American people," he said.
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Police took no action, which is why King, Devlin, and O'Kane have stepped forward, said the Guardian — seeing themselves as good candidates to take proactive action as they no longer have jobs which could be adversely impacted by a criminal record.
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They reveal that Thomas Paine is, in fact, Michael D. Moore, 51, a Pennsylvania man with a background in journalism, a criminal record as a result of an FBI investigation, and a long history of shady and illegal business practices.
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It argues that the screening tool disproportionately affects black and Latinx tenants, and fails to properly take into account mitigating circumstances of a criminal record, allegedly a violation of the Fair Housing Act as it was outlined in HUD's 2016 guidance.
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It's been 22002 months since she was caught up in the Trump administration's crackdown on immigration, deported and separated from her children despite her more than two decades in the country, her successful career, and her lack of a criminal record.
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"We're trying to move the dialogue about saving the lives of these young men, most of whom have a criminal record, as the focus as opposed to saying, you know, let's just throw more policing resources at them," Papachristos said.
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For defenders of police, a typical response after police kill another black man is to find a way to blame the victim: He had a criminal record, he was breaking the law, he didn't listen to the officer, and so on.
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Ginger Eason said she never mailed the ballots, but gave them to McCrae Dowless, who serves as vice chair on the board of the Bladen County Soil and Water Conservation District and reportedly has a criminal record for felony fraud.
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"An arrest or police stop that did not result in a conviction, or a criminal record that was sealed or expunged, should not — indeed, must not — be a standard question on a college application," Mr. Schneiderman said at the time.
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On Friday, family attorneys are to begin turning their attention to those who weren&apost reunited — parents who had a criminal record, parents who were no longer in the U.S. and children who were handed over to other sponsors, Gelernt said.
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The emergence of a former coal boss with a criminal record as a potential Senate nominee seems partly an expression of many West Virginia voters' desire to poke a thumb in the eye of the Washington establishment, Republicans very much included.
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" In regards to the weapons the gunman used, President Obama said "it appears that he was able to obtain these weapons legally because he did not have a criminal record that, in some ways, would prohibit him from purchasing these weapons.
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However, these databases are incomplete and subject to both false negatives (meaning a criminal record is missed) and false positives (meaning the record is about the wrong person or that, by law, the criminal matter should not have been reported).
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The U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday that certain immigrants, including those who have recently arrived and those with a criminal record, have been detained and face possible deportation, are not entitled to a bond hearing after six months of detention.
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In addition to the videos and photos, The Portland Mercury also reported that Christian has a criminal record going back to 2002 which includes convictions of first-degree robbery, second-degree kidnapping, and for carrying and using a dangerous weapon.
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Our analysis suggests certain conditions and barriers may make it difficult to find a job, like lacking a high school diploma, having a criminal record, physical or mental disabilities, not possessing a car, or a lack of recent work experience.
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And there is the "Ban the Box" campaign, which seeks to remove the "check here if you have a felony conviction" box (or sometimes "check if you've ever been arrested" or "if you have a criminal record") from initial job applications.
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Although we tend to think of a prison term as "paying a debt to society," the stigma of a criminal record can stick with a former prisoner for much longer and prevent them from finding employment, housing, or education opportunities.
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He said he and others had recently distanced themselves from Betts over his bizarre behavior, including talking in realistic terms about the violence depicted in the music, telling stories about his past methamphetamine use, and lying about having a criminal record.
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The second attacker has yet to be formally identified, but several French news outlets have said that he did not have a criminal record, nor were his fingerprints or DNA on file, slowing the security forces' efforts to identify him.
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The new legislation demands that applicants must not have a criminal record, must be recommended as a guardian by a welfare officer in their home country and must not have promised money or any other reward to facilitate their case.
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In New York, those just out of prison are not supposed to have contact with anyone in possession of a criminal record, an anachronistic rule that would keep released prisoners out of rehabilitation groups where they might share their experiences.
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Current federal law means that licensed firearms dealers must run a background check to make sure a potential buyer doesn't have a criminal record, history of mental illness, or any other factor that legally bars someone from buying a gun.
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The Barksdales were captured near Punkin Center, a remote town around 50 miles (80 km) northeast of Phoenix, at the home of a man with a criminal record for drug sales, said David Gonzales, U.S. Marshal for the District of Arizona.
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Interior Ministry spokesman Khaled Hayouni was quoted on state news agency TAP as saying police knew the identity of the assailant, a 28-year-old man with a criminal record, but he did not suggest a motive for the killing.
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More than four million people are currently under state or federal supervision, threatened with re-incarceration for everything from failing a drug test to spending time with friends or family with a criminal record, or falling asleep in the wrong house.
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The PSD, which promised higher wages and pensions during the election campaign, had hoped Dragnea, who keeps tight control of his party, would stand for prime minister but Iohannis made clear he would refuse any candidate with a criminal record.
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Mr. Ruiz, who had a criminal record with a handful of offenses, including robbery and criminal possession of a weapon, and had a couple of other charges attached to the case, served almost five years, according to jail and prison records.
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But it would add an additional step early in the process: assessing asylum eligibility (which is based on not just persecution but also absence of a criminal record and other factors) before adjudicating the actual claim, instead of considering both together.
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TORONTO (Reuters) - The Canadian government passed a law late on Wednesday that would allow its citizens with a criminal record for marijuana possession to be pardoned without any cost and expedite a process that previously could take up a decade.
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At the end of the most recent season, Piper (Taylor Schilling) was released from prison and the new trailer for the seventh season suggests that she will now be figuring out how to navigate the world outside of prison with a criminal record.
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None of the victims had a criminal record, police told the media outlet, adding that the wounded were taken to a hospital in Porto Alegre, the capital of Rio Grande do Sul state, almost 220 km (140 miles) from the crime scene.
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The other side, supportive of police, comes out pointing to the nuances of the cases and perhaps the ways that the victims are to blame for their deaths — he had a criminal record, he didn't listen to the police, and so on.
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It was more than a month before any of her remains were found and later still when a local mechanic—a 22014-year-old divorced father of two with a criminal record whose past victims were invariably women—was arrested, charged, and convicted.
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The day before she died, Ms. Marks had filed a report with the police alleging that her former boyfriend, a man with a criminal record who was three decades her senior, had assaulted her at the Albany Houses, trying to grab her groceries.
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Mr. Nixon, a Democrat, vetoed the measure in June, saying it would allow individuals with a criminal record to legally carry a concealed firearm even though they had been, or would have been, denied a permit under the old law's background check.
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She quickly accumulated a criminal record mostly thanks to local laws meant to control "loose women" and the spread of venereal disease; her first charge was in Seattle for disorderly conduct in 1943, when she was branded "a promiscuous woman," Levin reports.
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In Bristol, where Avon and Somerset's Drug Education Programme has been running since April, 215 people caught in possession of drugs—an offense with a maximum sentence of seven years—have been offered an alternative to receiving a criminal record and court summons.
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Owning a pistol requires a restricted license in Canada, which means that police—in Bissonnette's case the Sûreté du Québec—would screen a person for mental health issues, violence, a criminal record, and would check in with at least two character references.
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More than 202,000 convictions in the state from the late 1970s through mid-June of this year will be sealed and 24,409 people will no longer have a criminal record, New York State Division of Criminal Justice Services spokeswoman Janine Kava told CNN.
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Even accused defendants with expensive attorneys usually end up with a criminal record, so if you're gonna dress up like a law enforcement officer, you'd better make it for something really, really good—like, literally anything other than a Chick-fil-A discount.
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"Ultimately, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission issued a guidance saying that a criminal record by itself shouldn't disqualify people," said Dr. Western, who now teaches at Columbia and had been in the midst of another project with Dr. Pager when she died.
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Mr. McAleenan said that the agency would continue to refer single adults for prosecution for illegally crossing the border, and that border agents would also separate children from adults if the child is in danger or if the adult has a criminal record.
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While questions remain about Niec's immigration status, his background and the reason for his detention, his situation offers a cautionary tale for permanent residents with a criminal record, no matter how minor or old the convictions may be, immigration lawyer Charles Kuck said.
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The everyday chatter — and such chatter is the warp and weft of "Jitney" — often involves getting and spending, the itemization of food and housing costs, of landing jobs with a criminal record, or where a body might find a bed that night.
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So far, more than two dozen states have taken steps to persuade employers to look past the box on job applications that asks if an applicant has a criminal record—with California lawmakers taking up the cause for consideration statewide this month.
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The practice of asking people upfront to disclose whether they have a criminal record has disproportionately affected minorities, particularly African-American males - a group that is incarcerated at more than five times the rate of whites, according to the NAACP civil rights organization.
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That is partly because of hiring discrimination: Employers are 50 percent less likely to call back an applicant with a criminal record, contributing to an unemployment rate nearly five times higher than that of the general population, according to the Prison Policy Initiative.
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Interior Minister Horst Seehofer said Tuesday the main goals of the "migration master plan" include the quick deportation of people living in Germany whose asylum applications have been rejected, who already registered for asylum in another European country or who have a criminal record.
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This is the difference between an Obama-era policy, where a lot of people could be arrested for no driver's license, but ICE wouldn't necessarily seek them out if they didn't have a criminal record—although it still happened—whereas now it's anybody who's caught.
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Unfortunately, checks that individual firms believe to be prudent are collectively bad for the 7m Americans who have spent time in prison and the 70m with a criminal record—numbers that may increase if Jeff Sessions, the hardline attorney-general, pushes through tougher sentencing rules.
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Consider the latest evidence: A new study, by researchers at the Violence Prevention Research Program at the University of California Davis, found that alcohol may be a much better predictor of future crime, including violent acts, than whether you have a criminal record at all.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Wednesday ordered a review of a government database used for background checks on gun buyers, after a man who killed 26 people in a Texas church was left off the system despite having a criminal record.
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Forcing job applicants to declare they have a criminal record—whether or not it is relevant to the post—allows employers to filter out ex-convicts, it is argued, and prevents them finding the sort of work that would help them stay out of prison.
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About one in three of those convicted of a first-offense are actually sent to jail, Herring noted, but even those who avoid jail time are often left with a criminal record and risk losing their job, student aid, public benefits or custody rights.
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So if you really don't want to be the next deporter in chief, can you promise tonight that you won't deport children and that you won't deport immigrants who don't have a criminal record and this time, could I get a yes or no answer?
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The impact of these policies is significant, particularly for black and Latino youths who will not have to live with the lifelong barriers that accompany a criminal record and whose freedom will allow them to complete their education, find employment or support a family.
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Why it matters: The U.S. has the highest imprisonment rates in the world — and a quarter of formerly incarcerated Americans will end up back in prison within 8 years of their release, often due to the difficulty in making a living with a criminal record.
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The conclusion drawn by economist Jennifer L. Doleac (who co-authored one of the studies) is that when employers can't see who has a criminal record, they still avoid people they think are likely to have criminal records — they just have to resort to guesswork.
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"The common thread logically is that, because our system of mass incarceration disproportionately targets African Americans, it is a form of proxy discrimination to prohibit someone solely based on their possession of a criminal record," Wanda Bertram, a staffer at the Prison Policy Initiative, said.
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ICE declined to speculate about the outcome of the investigation and said that regardless of what may happen in a potential prosecution the undocumented man had a criminal record and was deported four times, making him subject to arrest by its agents at any time.
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Yet less than two weeks ago, Dr. Henry Bello, who had a criminal record and a troubled history, was able to walk into Upstate Guns and Ammo in Schenectady, N.Y., and buy a weapon that was for all intents and purposes a military-style rifle.
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"When the unemployment rate is high, you can afford to not hire anyone who has a criminal record, you can afford to not hire someone who's been out of work for two years," said Lawrence H. Summers, the Harvard economist and former Treasury secretary.
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Moore's lawyer essentially argued in court that the ex-cop had repeatedly abused the system over a 12-year period because he had trouble with past relationships, according to the Australian Associated Press, and that he'd merely been searching for a prospective date without a criminal record.
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Sure. But then you also have to consider those who can't buy guns legally, perhaps due to a criminal record or a history of mental illness or simply a disdain for the process that some believe inhibits would-be gun owners from gaining access to guns.
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Kelley was able to buy the gun because the Air Force didn't report a prior domestic violence conviction to the FBI as it was supposed to, meaning Kelley's name wasn't in a database that alerts gun sellers that a prospective gun buyer has a criminal record.
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So although fewer people are in prison on any given day, more people are still dealing with the terrible consequences of getting caught up in the justice system, particularly a criminal record that makes it harder to get a job, vote, get housing, and much more.
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You get a paediatric first aid certificate; you complete a short training course approved by your local authority; you join the Ofsted Early Years Register and get a criminal record check for anyone over 16 living with you; you get a home inspection and you get insurance.
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The National Instant Criminal Background Check System, which is run by the FBI, flags people who are buying firearms or applying for a criminal background check if they have a criminal record or have been banned from possessing a firearm because of a mental health issue.
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The government's list originally included 102 children under five, but Fabian said six were removed because the parent had a criminal record that made them ineligible for reunification, or the government found that the adult who crossed the border with the child was not actually their parent.
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"We want to hire people with lived [addiction] experience, and the reality is most people with that will have a criminal record," Dr. Sarah Wakeman, medical director of the substance use disorder initiative at Massachusetts General Hospital's Center for Community Health Improvement, which has piloted the model.
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But Indiana doesn't require any of this for purchases between two private individuals (including those at gun shows and those who meet through the internet), allowing even someone with a criminal record to buy a firearm without passing a background check or submitting paperwork recording the sale.
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"Phil approached us with the idea of showing only prison-made items and artists with a criminal record, at a gallery kicked out for breaking the law, in a neighborhood notorious in LA for illegal activity and immigrants," says Patterson, a street artist and ex-convict himself.
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In a video he posted on Twitter, Tim Pool said he could no longer report from the scene in Milwaukee, where an officer on Saturday fatally shot a 23-year-old man who officials said was armed and had a criminal record, according to ABC News.
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The National News Agency of Lebanon reported at the time that Mr. Houshi, then identified only as Tarek H., had a criminal record and had confessed to the killing of Ms. Dykes, but it was not immediately clear on Friday what crime he had been convicted of.
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Just last year, after a young woman was shot by an immigrant here illegally with a criminal record who had been released by the authorities in San Francisco, the Republican-led House voted to withhold some federal funding from jurisdictions that shield undocumented immigrants from federal officials.
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He also called on Congress to amend the Fair Housing Act to formalize Obama-era guidance, which the Trump administration is trying to reverse, that says blanket bans on renting or selling to anyone with a criminal record are illegal because they disproportionately affect people of color.
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But Indiana doesn't require any of this for purchases between two private individuals — including those at gun shows and those who meet through the internet — allowing even someone with a criminal record to buy a firearm without passing a background check or submitting paperwork recording the sale.
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Dr. Pager said that even she had been surprised by the results: A follow-up telephone survey showed that blacks who said they had a criminal record had a callback rate of 5 percent, and blacks who said they did not had a rate of 14 percent.
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And attorneys from the Creating Law Enforcement Accountability and Responsibility project at CUNY School of Law, known as CLEAR, say including the watchlist notations on rap sheets is a violation of DCJS regulations because the notations do nothing to establish a criminal record and can be inaccurate.
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In October 2016, Ms. Blair and Mr. Martin were single and separately struggling — Ms. Blair with saving money to move out of a house in Amherst she was sharing with her younger brother, Cameron, and Mr. Martin with the baggage that comes with a criminal record.
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In his book The New Scarlet Letter, Steven Raphael, an economist at the University of California in Berkeley, suggests that carrying a criminal record in the U.S. labor market is like being dubbed with a badge of infamy that forever brands these individuals with their past transgressions.
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Rachel Bullen, an Australian oboist prosecuted for the crime of playing guest sets with Danish orchestras, was not so lucky: She was convicted and left Denmark with her career in tatters; with a criminal record, she found it hard to get work even in her native country.
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LONDON (Reuters) - The man who killed four people near Britain's Houses of Parliament on Wednesday had spent time working in Saudi Arabia but did not have a criminal record there or attract the attention of the security services, the Saudi embassy in London said on Friday.
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After running on the promise he would relax Brazil's onerous gun ownership regulations and make it easier for the police to kill criminals, he said on Twitter that he would, by issuing an executive order, allow civilians without a criminal record to buy weapons for self-protection.
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This makes black people more likely to be caught breaching bail and makes it harder to find a surety without a criminal record who is not serving as surety for someone else, said Chris Sewrattan, a defense lawyer who represents many young black men from eastern Toronto.
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Stephen Bannon, Mr Trump's chief strategist, who worked in Hollywood for a while, once said that the defeat of a bill in Congress that would have given illegal immigrants without a criminal record a path to citizenship was an achievement comparable to the passage of the Civil Rights Act.
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The main goals of the 22017-point "migration master plan" include the quick deportation of people living in Germany whose asylum applications have been rejected, who already registered for asylum in another European country or who have a criminal record, Interior Minister Horst Seehofer told reporters in Berlin.
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After coming into contact with US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents for the first time in 2013 after a traffic stop, Alejandra was for years classified as a low-priority deportation, meaning she had to have biannual check-in with ICE and could not have a criminal record.
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That's when Trump introduced the phrase "bad hombres," vowing to deport all of them from the U.S. He repeated the conspiracy theory that border patrol agents were speeding up immigrants' applications — even those with a criminal record — "so they can go and vote" in our 2016 presidential election.
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Since the purchase of a printer does not come with a background check or gun licensing requirement, individuals with a criminal record, domestic abusers, terrorists, people with no firearms training and experience whatsoever, and teenage kids could all potentially get their hands on a freshly printed plastic firearm.
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Most crucially, Indiana does not require a background check for purchases between two private individuals — including those at gun shows and who meet through the internet — allowing even those with a criminal record to buy a firearm without passing a background check or even paperwork recording the sale.
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In a move that appears to fly in the face of the Home Office's official anti-drug reform mantra, both Durham and Avon & Somerset Police forces have for several months been operating "diversion" schemes which have resulted in scores of drug users avoiding court, jail, and a criminal record.
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Legislation like the Renew Act, the Clean Slate Act, and the Fair Chance Act would enhance the reforms in the First Step Act by breaking down barriers to reentry, including the simple existence of a criminal record, that still prevent rehabilitated offenders from reentry into society as productive citizens.
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WASHINGTON — The Justice Department on Wednesday ordered a federal review of a database that is used to check gun buyers' backgrounds, after a man who shot and killed more than two dozen people at a Texas church this month was omitted from the system despite a criminal record.
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The judge had acknowledged that there was no evidence linking Mr. Coleman to the crime and that he did not have a criminal record, but gave him a life sentence for the murder conviction and a consecutive 30-year sentence for the sexual assault conviction, the court documents show.
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The focus should be on pre-booking and non-arrest diversion for conduct that would otherwise result in a criminal record; and legislatures should reform harsh sentencing laws, including three strikes laws, mandatory minimums, and truth-in- sentencing laws that encourage harsh sentences for less serious drug offenses.
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Claypool, a tall, bald man who looked as if he had rolled out of bed in his magisterial robes, appeared to be unmoved by the defense lawyers' attempts to reduce the $303,000 bail or to characterize their clients, none of whom had a criminal record, as law-abiding citizens.
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The siege in Brighton, in which a gunman shot a man dead and took a woman hostage before being killed by the police, led Mr. Turnbull to question how the assailant, who had a criminal record and was on a terrorism watch list, could have been granted parole.
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And here's the curious case of a man Fox News identified as a Swedish defense and national security adviser who defended Mr. Trump's claim that criminal immigrants were wreaking havoc in Sweden: It turns out he has a criminal record and the Swedish authorities haven't heard of him.
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Charles Fleming has a criminal record that includes a 1996 conviction on multiple counts of writing worthless checks and driving while a habitual offender, a 2000 conviction for perjury and a 2008 conviction for driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs, according to records of the Kansas Department of Corrections.
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A study claims that when criminal history information is removed during the hiring process, it can actually lead to an "increase of statistical discrimination against demographic groups that include more ex-offenders," like black and Latino men, because of the assumption that they are more likely to possess a criminal record.
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With a criminal record comes a vast network of restrictions and biases that operate to consign a third of the adult population to permanent second-class citizenship, as punitive as the old civil death laws that stripped a convicted person of all rights and privileges, and far more wide-reaching.
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But Indiana, across the border, doesn't require any of this for purchases between two private individuals (including those at gun shows and those who meet through the internet), allowing even someone with a criminal record to buy a firearm without passing a background check or submitting paperwork recording the sale.
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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: 1 dead, 13 injuredAt about 11:20 PM, 25-year-old Nicholas Glenn, a man with a criminal record known to local police, walked up to 193-year-old Sergeant Sylvia Young, who was sitting in her police patrol car at an intersection, and shot at her through her windshield.
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That plan was designed to let roughly 4 million people - those who have lived illegally in the United States at least since 2010, do not have a criminal record and have children who are U.S. citizens or lawful permanent residents - get into a program that shields them from deportation and supplies work permits.
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But in the last two years of the Obama administration, it was still pretty unlikely that an immigrant who would have benefited from DAPA would get arrested and deported — because it was unlikely that any immigrant who'd lived in the US for years and didn't have a criminal record would be arrested and deported.
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This loophole has let unlicensed people sell or give guns to family members, friends, and people they met over the internet or at a gun show without verifying that the person getting the gun doesn't have a criminal record, mental health history, or some other factor that legally bars him from obtaining a firearm.
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That reality might make a plea deal, regardless of innocence and even if it results in some prison time and a criminal record, look like a good idea — because it at least brings an end to the uncertainty that can come with the possibility of spending weeks, months, or years in jail before trial.
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Our entire nation can achieve greater public safety and justice outcomes through sensible sentencing reforms that reduce a large number of federal crimes and implementation of recidivism reduction programs such as mental health and substance abuse treatment, job and educational training programs, and the breaking down barriers to employment for those with a criminal record.
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But we do know enough about demagogues in history to know that when you engage in that kind of action and rhetoric as we're seeing it from the highest office of our country, aided and abetted by a huge echo chamber … There are people, this guy has a criminal record, there are unbalanced people.
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Nearly half of children now have at least one parent with a criminal record, and the barriers associated with that record, from difficulty finding a job to trouble securing stable housing, can result in lasting family economic instability and severely limit the life chances of children, also potentially hampering cognitive development and educational achievement.
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"I'm happy to be back with my family," said Yousef Ajin, a 48-year-old Uber driver who was released on Tuesday from a detention center in Battle Creek, Michigan, after a federal judge ruled he could remain in the country despite a criminal record because his wife and four children - all U.S. citizens - face hardship without him.
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In most of the 1,768 cases of families separated by border agents between October 2016 and February, children were removed from parents for medical reasons or because of security concerns, the official said, citing examples such as parents needing hospitalization or officials discovering the parent had a criminal record either in the United States or in their home country.
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One would fill in holes in the National Criminal Instant Background Check system (NCIS) that were highlighted after a mass shooting at a Texas church last month, in which the gunman, a former Air Force member, was able to buy guns even though he had a criminal record that the military failed to report to the database.
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Examples might include passing legislation to "ban the box," which aims to remove the check box on job applications that asks if candidates have a criminal record; creating re-entry programs to help formerly incarcerated people pursue college degrees; or providing mentorship and counseling programs for prisoners upon their release The Homecoming Project is only in Oakland.
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Josh Boschee, a candidate for secretary of state in North Dakota, was derided as a sinner by a radio host who defended Will Gardner, a Republican who dropped out of the race after it came to light that he had a criminal record related to an accusation that he peeped into a window at a women's dormitory.
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The Getting Talent Back to Work initiative empowers employers to confidently evaluate applicants with criminal records by equipping them with the information and tools they need to reduce uncertainty, including when to ask about a criminal record during the hiring process, state and federal regulations, and what types of convictions to consider based on the job.
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That case later comes before Gorsuch's court, where Gorsuch writes a dissenting opinion saying prosecutors should have to prove the man knew he had a criminal record that disqualified him from firearms ownership, because according to the relevant federal statute, a felon in possession of a gun must "knowingly" violate the law to be found guilty.
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Although one woman who lived nearby told the Journal-Sentinel she and her husband once caught the boys stealing gas, it was only the older sibling, Erik, who racked up a criminal record: He was convicted of possession of weed and kipping out on bail, and pleaded no contest to sexually assaulting a 15-year-old girl when he was 18.
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The President's blanket directive to round up and target all undocumented immigrants -- regardless of how long they have been in the United States, at what age they traveled here, and whether they have a criminal record -- has rendered the agency fundamentally incapable of conducting core parts of its mission of keeping our country safe in terms of terrorism or larger crimes.
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The ways in which a criminal record can impact your job are numerous: a salesman who has several DUIs and can not be responsible for driving around clients and entertaining them; an administrative assistant who has been convicted of theft; a summer intern who was found guilty of assault and battery; an IT guy who was arrested for hacking into his old boss's computer.
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The ramifications of a criminal record are very real -- whether for a survivor of sex trafficking who cannot get a job or rent an apartment because of prior arrests for prostitution; a domestic worker who has fled her abusive household and needs protection but instead is penalized for violating U.S. immigration laws; or those forced by organized criminal groups to produce, transport, and sell drugs.
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This morning we exclusively revealed that two British police forces—Durham and Somerset & Avon—have for several months been trialling "diversion" schemes, where people caught carrying personal amounts of drugs (including crack and heroin) have been referred to drug education workshops rather than getting a criminal record for drug possession, in what could signal the first steps towards the decriminalization of drugs in Britain.
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" Related: Justin Trudeau's Battle for Legal Weed in Canada is Going to Be a Total Mess Craig Jones, executive director of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws in Canada, told VICE News that while having a cop lead the charge wouldn't have been his first choice, he thinks Blair understands that a criminal record is "a much greater harm than cannabis use.
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As Vox's German Lopez previously reported, there is a massive loophole in existing gun laws, which means that private gun sellers do not have to do background checks: Under current federal law, licensed dealers are required to run a background check to make sure a buyer doesn't have a criminal record, history of mental illness, or any other factor that legally bars him from purchasing a gun.
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Other problem areas listed by TfL on Friday are: Uber's approach to how medical certificates are obtained; its approach to how Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) checks are obtained (which relates to carrying out background checks to ensure workers do not have a criminal record); and its approach to explaining the use of Greyball in London (aka an alleged internal software program the company created seeking to evade regulatory oversight).
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FOID staff search for applicants' names in state and federal databases to determine if they have a criminal record or other violations that make them ineligible to own a firearm, according to Lt. Joseph W. Hutchins of the Illinois State Police The Chicago Tribune reported in 103 that ISP uses the National Instant Criminal Background Check System, or NICS, a database maintained by the FBI that several states use.
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Asked about rumors that President Trump will end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program — the Obama-era program that's given protection from deportation and work permits to about 750,000 unauthorized immigrants — White House press secretary Sean Spicer said that Trump "has been clear that we need to direct agencies to focus on those who are in the country illegally with a criminal record and/or pose a threat" to Americans.
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Private gun ownership generally requires a license, for which an applicant "must be at least 18 years of age, may not have been placed under guardianship, may not give cause for suspicion that he would endanger himself or others with the weapon, and may not have a criminal record with a conviction for a violent crime or of several convictions for nonviolent crimes," according to the Library of Congress's review of Swiss gun laws.
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After submitting proof that Maribel is the mother of four U.S. citizen children, all of whom were receiving medical treatment for various illnesses, as well as her strong ties to the community, the absence of a criminal record, and hundreds of letters of support from her fellow parishioners and other community members, ICE agreed not to deport her as long as she attended regular check-ins and complied with certain other conditions.
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READ MORE: Inside the far-right conspiracy movement that's preparing for a showdown with Germany's government According to German media reports, the man has had past associations with various right-wing extremist groups, from the neo-Nazi political party the NPD to the militant group Combat 18, and has a criminal record for violent and xenophobic crimes, including for a bomb attack on a refugee shelter in 1993 and an attempted homicide.
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You're sitting in the middle of the country sharpening dull needles with fingernail files to be sold on the street for $25, or taking too many prescription opioids to calm the nerves before a presentation, or taking the coating off an opioid and cooking it down to liquid form, and straining it and shooting it up, or trying to cope with a couple of foster kids and a criminal record — and hell the country looks ready for a shake-up.
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Furthermore, when it comes to deportations, the Trump administration is sounding mighty … Obama-ish: Asked about rumors that President Trump will end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program — the Obama-era program that's given protection from deportation and work permits to about 750,000 unauthorized immigrants — White House press secretary Sean Spicer said that Trump "has been clear that we need to direct agencies to focus on those who are in the country illegally with a criminal record and/or pose a threat" to Americans.
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So even if you are, like many of my clients — homeless, mentally ill, and too poor to own a phone — you are nonetheless expected to either call a police station or show up in person, make an appointment over 153 days in advance, wait for hours at the police station on your appointment day (hardly a comfortable place for most of us, let alone someone with a criminal record), read and understand legal jargon on lengthy documents, and continue to do so every few weeks for the rest of your life.
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