The Michigan Department of Corrections will now be allowed to hire felons thanks to legislation approved by Michigan lawmakers and signed by the governor. The plan from state Representative Dave Pagel of Berrien Springs applies to non-violent offenders. Pagel tells WSJM News it seems right to him that the DOC could put its money where its mouth is.
“The Michigan Department of Corrections actually had a law that forbade them from hiring felons themselves, and yet they were going out into the community and talking to businesses and promoting the hiring of felons to businesses,” Pagel said.
Pagel tells us the state takes great pains to prepare inmates, especially non-violent ones, to turn their lives around when they get out of prison, and finding a job is the most important thing they need to do.
