Abstract
The United States of America has one of the most dismal criminal rate statistics. Many thousands formerly convicted persons are released annually. For the vast majority of them, especially for those who served long terms, successful re-integration to the society is often positioned as a task of considerable complexity (Alexander, 2011).
This paper examines the problems commonly faced by the ex-offenders in the housing, employment, electoral rights and possibility of military service contexts. They consider that after their release from the penitentiary institutions they “are rejected by the society, “unjustifiably stigmatized” and “all opportunities for a decent, well-paid employment
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