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EPISODE · Jan 5, 2022 · 33 MIN

When Can Your Past Bar You From a Job—And When Should It?

from Beyond the Brief

In Virginia, any one of 176 so-called barrier crimes can disqualify a person from work in certain occupations for life—no matter how old the conviction, how unrelated it is to the work the person desires to do, or how little it reflects the person’s fitness today. These laws kept IJ client Rudy Carey from fulfilling work as a substance abuse counselor for people he is uniquely fit to help. In today’s show, we talk about what happened to Rudy and how he is fighting against collateral consequences laws that are irrational and unjust. https://youtu.be/zjOqwT5M7Xw Click here for more Deep Dive episodes. Download the MP3 here.

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