Clean Slate Program

In the San Francisco Chronicle the article, "S.F.Program Gives Convicts a Chance for a Fresh Start" talked about the Clean Slate Program. The Clean Slate Program is in the San Francisco and it helps the criminals to clean the criminals' record. The Clean Slate believes that the criminals' records must be cleaned, because it helps them to make a better future by getting better opportunities. Last year, the Clean Slate Program cleaned more than 1,500 criminals' records. "Demarris Evans, a deputy public defender who runs Clean Slate, says the theory behind the program is that former criminals have a better chance at landing a job and forging a crime -free future when past convictions are cleared," said the San Francisco Chronicle the article "S.F.Program Gives Convicts a Chance for a Fresh Start". I disagree with the Clean Slate Program about cleaning the criminals' records.

Even though the Clean Slate Program helps the criminals to get better job opportunities, it might increase the criminal rate. For the sake of our community's safety, then I think the Clean Slate Program must be stopped. Sometime punishment does change the criminals' behavior, most of the time the criminals do not change. If the criminal is saying that he or she has been changed, then how should we know whether she or he is telling the truth? In the other words, we can say that we are encouraging the criminals, by helping them. By helping the criminals, the Clean Slate Program is breaking down the security of others, because if the criminals do the crime again, then how should we find out that he or she was the criminal before.

However, sometime someone does not have any intention behind the crime, but an anciently the criminal committed the crime. I know one man whose name was Rahul and he did not have any intention behind killing his dad, but he did commit the crime. Rahul's dad was a drinker who drinks every day and after drinking, he beats up his wife without any