salon: But the ordeal is far from over for Alexander, a mother of three from Jacksonville, Florida.
salon: But the ordeal is far from over for Alexander, a mother of three from Jacksonville, Florida. She will spend the next two years under house arrest, or what’s called community control. She will wear a GPS monitoring device that will track her every movement. She will only be permitted to leave home to work, attend medical and court appointments, go to church and pick up her children from school. If she plans to do anything else, she will need explicit permission from a judge. This monitoring will cost her nearly $11,000 for the entirety of her sentence. She is also now a convicted felon. And in Florida, that means that she has lost her ability to vote, to help elect representatives that have the power to change the laws that put her behind bars in the first place. And while Jacksonville happens to be one of three cities in Florida that does not require people convicted of felonies to check a box alerting employers of their record on an initial job application, hiring and workplace discrimination against people convicted of crimes continues to harm the ability of women like Alexander to support themselves and their families. We live in a broken society. -- source link
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