"As many as 3,000 former prisoners return to the District each year, many with a limited education, no job skills, frayed family relations and empty pockets. But what really keeps them down, many city leaders contend, is a society unwilling to give them a second chance.

At least 11 states have laws limiting what employers can ask about criminal records. And now, the D.C. Council is considering joining them, with legislation that would prohibit discrimination in employment, housing and education against ex-offenders."

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