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Darrin Howell, a former inmate who couldn’t find a job when he was freed, is now a high-profile advocate for reforming the laws that helped block people like him from finding work after they earned their freedom.
Prior to his two years behind bars, he had held temporary clerical or administrative jobs at a hospital, a bank, and an insurance company. But after his release from the Suffolk County House of Correction, those kinds of places wouldn’t touch him, Howell says.
Adding insult to injury, he says one employer, upon learning of his criminal past, even had him train his replacement, and then fired him.