Rat satirizes a very valid point. It is all well and good to despise the crime someone commits. But it is wrong, and counterproductive, to try to punish them for the rest of their lives because of it. They have to be able to make a living somehow once out of jail. It serves no one to prevent them from using whatever skills they have to earn an honest salary. That would merely force people to, once again, act outside the law.
Rat satirizes a very valid point. It is all well and good to despise the crime someone commits. But it is wrong, and counterproductive, to try to punish them for the rest of their lives because of it. They have to be able to make a living somehow once out of jail. It serves no one to prevent them from using whatever skills they have to earn an honest salary. That would merely force people to, once again, act outside the law.