EDITORIAL OF CONS AND POLS.CITING an unemployment rate between 70 percent and 90 percent for ex-cons, Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. County officials are looking into easing up the rules about what past crimes county job-seekers must disclose on their application forms. The idea is to help reformed criminals get back on their feet and become gainfully gain·ful adj. Providing a gain; profitable: gainful employment. gain  ful·ly adv. employed.
And while some hard-core hard-core also hard·core adj. 1. Intensely loyal; die-hard: a hard-core secessionist; a hard-core golfer. 2. law-and-order types might bristle at Verb 1. bristle at - show anger or indignation; "She bristled at his insolent remarks" bridle at, bridle up, bristle up mind - be offended or bothered by; take offense with, be bothered by; "I don't mind your behavior" the prospect of letting ex-cons into local government, the policy seems only consistent with public-sector practice in these parts. After all, committing a crime is sometimes not enough to get a public worker in L.A. fired. So why should it keep one from getting hired? Besides, with the county government unable to keep inmates behind bars -- releasing some after serving just days of their sentence -- this might be the perfect solution to our jail overcrowding overcrowding overcrowding of animal accommodation. Many countries now publish codes of practice which define what the appropriate volumetric allowances should be for each species of animal when they are housed indoors. Breaches of these codes is overcrowding. problem. What better place to put the ethically challenged than in the halls of local government? They'll feel right at home. |
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