As a person with a 31 year old non-violent cannabis felony in Wisconsin, I have been prevented from serving in our Nations military, informed for years that the recruiters have a waiver for murders, rapists, and thieves, and obviously transgenders.
I attempted until I was 33 years old to join any branch and none would touch me.
Truly I believed I could contribute and participate. Now I will never know.
For future versions of this situation, please consider removing all non-violent felonies from any record longer than 5 years, Federally and State. This also contributes to the homeless epidemic. Unable to be employed in some cases, unable to better oneself, unable to grow with this weight preventing this possibility.
Wisconsin presently has a bill not yet voted on that would allow expungements but again that is expensive. Other states have just removed old convictions, wiped them out. Wisconsin has a long history of financially raping citizens, not unlike Minnesota with its excess of regulations and processing, fees here and fees there everywhere a fee fee.
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