Aug. 4, 2021, 5:00 a.m. ET
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By Jamie Dimon
Mr. Dimon is the chairman and chief executive of JPMorgan Chase & Company.
One in three American adults more than 70 million people have some type of criminal record. To put this in perspective, about the same number of Americans have college degrees right now.
Unfortunately, these Americans, who were incarcerated or have a conviction on their record, are essentially unable to secure good jobs in this country. Nearly half of formerly incarcerated people are unemployed one year after leaving prison. That is a moral outrage.
This group is ready to work and deserves a second chance an opportunity to fill the millions of job openings across the country. Yet our criminal justice system continues to block them from doing so.
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