WHY do ex-offenders check the box "Have you ever been convicted of a felony?"

[Th1onein]

49. A job is not necessarily a "thing of value."

In the case of a job, there is no value in it until YOU put the value in it by doing the work. And, then, you get paid for the work. Your argument is not a good one.

Moreover, fraudulent inducement to contract is a civil action, not a criminal one. The mirror in criminal law would be false pretenses, BUT the person defrauded must be suffer some damages in order to claim this, and unless the person was not ABLE to do the job because of the criminal background, it doesn't fit the requirements for a criminal case. Sorry, simply getting a job because you didn't check the box is not cause for criminal charges.

And, by the way, doesn't it tell you something that some states are outlawing putting this question on the job application? That ought to tell you something.