Senate considers employer incentive to hire ex-prisoners #DetroitNews

Lindsay VanHulle - LANSING — The debate about whether employers should hire convicted felons is returning to the Capitol, where state senators are teeing up a plan to offer Michigan companies thousands of dollars in financial incentives to entice more of them to hire former prisoners.If successful, it would give re-entry employment advocates another tool as they try to connect parolees with jobs. And it will continue a dialogue about the merits of hiring people with criminal records at a time when more

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