Black Privilege - SUNY will no longer ask about felony convictions

[ShootSpeeders]

Actually i support this. Most people don't realize that the word "felony" includes all sorts of very minor crimes. There are thousands of americas with felonies who never did a day in prison.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/15/n...applicants-about-felony-convictions.html?_r=0

sep 14 2016 For years, the State University of New York included this query on its undergraduate application: “Have you ever been convicted of a felony?”

On Wednesday, the university’s board of trustees voted to remove the question, citing the barriers it posed to some prospective students.

The news that one of the largest public university systems in the country will no longer ask applicants whether they have been convicted of a felony is a step forward in a movement to remove questions about criminal histories from college applications. A 2010 study by the Center for Community Alternatives, a nonprofit group in New York, found that about two-thirds of colleges asked for criminal history information from applicants, including some that asked about arrests or misdemeanor convictions.

 

[blastoff]

Just axe them if they've ever shot anyone.

 

[Fenton Lum]

The for profit prison industry will be lobbying against all this type of thing, count on it.

 

[ShootSpeeders]

A better question may be "have you ever spent time in a state or federal prison?"

 

[ThunderKiss1965]

I have no problem with someone trying to better themselves. Its the Conservative way.

 

[ShootSpeeders]

Felony - a crime for which you COULD have gotten a year or more in prison.

That's a very low bar.