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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Josh Marcus

How second-chance employment combats the ‘scarlet letter’ of a criminal record during the hiring process

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Jeffery Arview didn’t have a backup plan. He joined the military out of high school, went to Iraq, and planned to stay in the armed forces for decades before retiring. Then a seemingly innocuous knee injury set in motion a course of events that would threaten everything he was dreaming of.

“I wanted to retire at 20 years,” he said. “I never really had an exit plan. Never talked about it, never thought about it, not anything.”

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