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Denial of taxi permit for ex-offender highlights re-entry challenges

In the last 8 months, Suzette Delancey says she has applied for 43 jobs and received 42 rejections. When she’s had the opportunity to interview, employers have said that her felony convictions—for delivery and attempted delivery of a controlled substance, methamphetamine, in 2009 and 2011—are too recent. Only one employer is willing to take a […]

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