studies suggest there is he s sick of telling people still discrimination ag about it, so now he just showse minorities when employers hire, an if you re black, male and th. have a criminal record, getting i m not going to the lid a job is even tougher. will blee right out. try it. stephanie elam found some state and local governments trying to whoa. looks like you scared me.e change that but for many, it is still an uphill struggle. you re really lucky. here s the basketball. what just happened? reporter: gene mace knows all that s just the gas went too well what a criminal record down. can do to a job search. d blowing out the hose. i turn it up and the water once the top of his class in blocked that, it will burn a flame off the top. high school, he dropped out of reporter: the gas bubbles college and began selling coke through his well. you can seenow,ou can t to support his habit. see even the hose in the bottom once i started dng stcocaine, of that. it jus
nearly 13 years, mace works for will this become ghost town some day? a transit company but he never maybe. i certainly don t want to live did get that electrician s job. here anymore. drew griffin joins us. oeay a felon, always a felon, drew, i m trying to put this and so that s what generally story it s dramatic stuff leads a person back to the life into a context that i can handle of crime because they feel like here, because it seems to me a once they committed a crime, lot of this comes down to money. that.it s no use now. talking about two groups of what i hope can come out of this people here. people who were paid for their is that those same individuals land to, for this process to that were thinking like that can take place. now have a sense of hope. right. right? rht. stephanie elam joining us t high don t drink the water, with more on the story. right? everybody gets paid. this is a tricky question. these people got paid $2,500 an acre to lease their