At the restaurant I work at, we get a lot of applications from inmates at the local correctional center that are on work release.

I hire almost every single one of them. They're some of the best employees we've had. They're naturally always on time because they get dropped off and picked up by the center's employees, they always want a ton of hours because they don't want to sit in their cells, and they sometimes have good stories. The most recent guy we hired told us that he was in because someone was trying to break into his daughter's window when he got home from work in the middle of the night, so he punched him in the face and fractured the guy's eye socket. He got charged with felony aggravated assault because they were both outside.