Should the perception of Black and Brown people who have felony convictions change as high profile people have toched by the criminal justice system?
Mayor Eric Adams holds an in-person media availability. City Hall. Monday, December 9, 2024. PHOTO CREDIT: Ed Reed/Mayoral Photography Office.‘ Publisher and my father, Wilbert “Bill” Tatum, before me.
“I think they see it as if you have a felony conviction, you’re a bad person,” said Lambright. “Rather than recognizing that many people in the suburbs in kind of majority white neighborhoods that are not heavily policed do felony activities all the time. They just don’t get caught for it and they just don’t get a felony conviction for it.”
Steuben Vega is the director of Workforce Development for Osborne Association, a statewide nonprofit that provides services and advocacy for people and families impacted by the criminal legal system. He remembers the city’sback in 2015, which pushed to ban employers from inquiring about criminal records or considering criminal history on a person’s job application.
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