Acceptance of Ex-Convict Employment by Enterprises to Return Good Inmates to Society
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This research article aims to study (1) to study the development of prisoners to be ready before they were released to society and follow up with those who have been released from prison and have a job; (2) to study the acceptance of ex-convict employment of enterprises; and (3) to study problems, obstacles, and solutions in consenting to ex-convict employment of enterprises. This was a qualitative research study. Data were collected through documentary analysis, an in-depth interview, and a focus group discussion. Key informants were selected by purposive sampling consisting of four government officials, two enterprise owners, and ten ex-convicts in focus group discussion, for a total of sixteen informants. The data were analyzed by content analysis, and recommendations were proposed based on theories of data organizing.
Findings are as follows: (1) the development of prisoners to be ready before they were released focused on prisons and penal institutions to provide vocational training for inmates to have a profession that they can use to pursue a career after being released from prison, and the results of following up on the ex-convict employment of enterprises found that the enterprise owners were satisfied with the performance and behavior of the ex-convicts; (2) the acceptance of ex-convict employment in enterprises was found to be fair, and inequality should be reduced for those ex-convicts to be able to work and take care of themselves and their families. However, there were still many sections of the law that prohibited some careers; and (3) problems found that the acceptance of ex-convict employment of enterprises was the ex-convicts’ stigma background that made most enterprises not accept them to work, like a stuck stigma to the ex-convicts forever. Direct employment of enterprises was less because most were hired from labor contracting companies. Most of those ex-convicts needed some money to invest in a career and to be cleared of their stigma to be accepted in society.
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