Rantz: Felons may earn six-figure salary from WA Dept of Corrections
Prioritizing murderers seems... wrong.
The Washington Department of Corrections is offering a six-figure-salary position to applicants it hopes are felons. It’s part of a larger strategy to “destigmatize” criminals and there is no felony conviction that disqualifies them from the job.
How would you like to be a long term lower level state employee that has stayed with the state through thick and thin, never broke our laws and always did what was best for the state only to see someone now hired into a better position that you are in and with more pay AND they are a convicted felon? How can that possibly be fair?