| With legitimate job prospects hampered by a felony record, many ex-convicts return to old hustles to survive. |
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| When the government introduced an elective element into the Legislative Council in 1842, no bar was placed on the participation of ex-convicts. |
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| An example of peer support groups dealing with difficult socialization problems would be those that work towards rehabilitating ex-convicts. |
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| The ex-convicts were able to slowly reintegrate and enter into dialogue with society. |
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| Other ex-convicts did well as farmers, tradesmen, shopkeepers and publicans. |
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| Soon, some of the ex-convicts were setting up businesses on their own as merchants. |
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| The children of the convicts had always been free, so the divisions between ex-convicts and the settlers gradually disappeared. |
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| In a many cases, these groups are controlled by bandits and ex-convicts thirsty for money. |
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| His crew were no more than ex-convicts and unemployed lowlifes looking for quick and easy cash. |
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| The story is a series of improbable events that lead to armed ex-convicts toting a nuclear device to a plane bound for the Bahamas. |
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| Businesses and the community now accept ex-convicts as rehabilitated citizens. |
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| More ex-convicts are on parole, often wearing electronic tags and subject to curfews. |
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| Often they were ex-convicts, ethnic minorities and losers in the battle for the best land. |
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| The military officers used their time to make money by trading and employed convicts and ex-convicts to help them. |
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| Insuring the ex-convicts, he said, was a problem. |
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| Nobody raises money for ex-convicts in our social scene. |
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| As in other countries, many rough-sleepers are ex-convicts. |
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| He visited holding pens, and interviewed prosecutors and ex-convicts. |
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| Singapore's annual Yellow Ribbon initiative is an attempt to overcome these barriers through a campaign to give ex-convicts a second chance in society. |
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| This was especially so in a penal colony where many of the convicts were hardened criminals and many of the free settlers were themselves ex-convicts and impulsive men. |
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| In 1999, he obtained funds to form Exodus Transnational Community, a place where ex-convicts who are having problems re-integrating into society can find practical assistance. |
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| On Tuesday, our committee heard nine witnesses as part of that study, people from the National Farmers Union, ex-convicts and a dean of law from Queen's University. |
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| For the thematic networks, a number of subject areas are proposed, such as start-up support, ex-convicts, migrants, gender mainstreaming, asylum, age management and victims of trafficking. |
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