CT News Junkie | ‘Ban the Box’ Advocates Seek To Aid Ex-Felons:
With tears in his eyes, Sen. Ed Gomes reached into his past Wednesday in a bid to build support for a measure that would ban private employers from asking job-seekers whether they’d ever been convicted of a crime.
Homeless and hungry at 17, the Bridgeport Democrat said, he broke into a restaurant and swiped a couple of tuna fish sandwiches.
Arrested and facing a judge without a lawyer by his side, a court convicted him of a felony and Gomes headed to prison in Cheshire – sentenced to one to two years behind bars.
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