{"id":401,"date":"2008-04-07T22:49:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-08T04:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/2008\/04\/07\/email-from-a-felons-spouse\/"},"modified":"2008-07-14T15:15:04","modified_gmt":"2008-07-14T21:15:04","slug":"email-from-a-felons-spouse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/2008\/04\/07\/email-from-a-felons-spouse\/","title":{"rendered":"email from a felon’s spouse"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>i got the following email from the spouse of someone convicted long ago for a drug offense. with her permission, i’m reprinting it in full.<\/p>\n

her first-hand account of the impact of collateral sanctions — even supposed “no-brainers” such as firearms restrictions — offers an important perspective on a set of contentious issues.<\/p>\n

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Mr. Uggen,<\/p>\n

My name is ___, and I am the wife of a convicted felon. My husband’s felony is now 13 years old, and we both still are paying the price. He was originally arrested for a rolled up dollar bill with traces of cocaine on it. He was given a five year suspended sentence with a 3 year probation term. After successfully completing one year, he tested positive for cocaine use and was sent to prison for “treatment” for 120-days.<\/p>\n

I ran across your information while researching a paper I am doing for college, I am a criminal Justice student, with a goal of being a probation officer. I am continually discouraged by the prospects for a convicted felon in the world today. I feel they serve a life sentence after their initial sentence has long been completed: lack of employment possibilities, brick walls with help for gaining an education or housing assistance, etc. It is no wonder the prison doors are revolving!<\/p>\n

I am interested in working with someone to change the laws in MO, in the United States for that matter to reinstate non-violent felons’ rights after they have “paid their debt to society.” My husband has been a model citizen since his incarceration, but continues to have “convicted felon” tattooed to whatever he tries to do. We have a son in the Army National Guard, who thought of being a police officer at one time – what to do with his gun and ammunition\u2026because of course my husband might go murder 15 or 20 people with it, because he is after all a convicted felon!! I plan to be a probation\/parole officer this time next year, same situation\u2026what to do with my gun? I actually requested a copy of the law be sent to me a few years ago when I was working as a substance abuse counselor – we are not even allowed to have fireworks in our home!<\/p>\n

OK, I will get off of my soapbox now. I just need to do something to work with someone to get these laws changed, rewritten, whatever! Please let me know what I can do!<\/p>\n

Thank you for your time and patience, listening to me rant and rave!<\/p>\n

Sincerely, <\/p><\/div>\n

_______<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

i got the following email from the spouse of someone convicted long ago for a drug offense. with her permission, i’m reprinting it in full. her first-hand account of the impact of collateral sanctions — even supposed “no-brainers” such as firearms restrictions — offers an important perspective on a set of contentious issues. Mr. Uggen, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[428],"class_list":["post-401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-felons"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}