| He started hiring ex-cons and gang members from the neighborhood, providing them with medical benefits and retirement plans. |
| Once freed, ex-cons were expected to check in their ticket of leave at the tradesman's entrance and work for their betters. |
| Pointless rules making it harder for ex-cons to find homes or jobs will be reconsidered. |
| The down-and-dirty, half-hour drama is the story of an unlikely duo of ex-cons who fall in with a plucky waitress at a notorious dead-end diner. |
| These days, the staff consists of two homeless ex-cons, a death penalty activist, and two women who married men in prison. |
| In other words, rather than returning to their communities anonymously, ex-cons will come back under a watchful eye. |
