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The very same Disney that hired Brian Peck to work on The Suite Life of Zack & Cody immediately upon his release from prison after serving 16 months for sexually abusing Drake Bell while working on Drake & Josh at Nickelodeon.

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That seems perfectly reasonable. In theory, someone being released from prison has paid for his crime and reformed his behavior (if not, that's a failing of the criminal justice system). In that case, he doesn't deserve further extrajudicial punishment like being unable to get a job, nor is it some kind of breach of morality to hire him.

> In theory, someone being released from prison has paid for his crime and reformed his behavior

There's no theory that says this.

> he doesn't deserve further extrajudicial punishment

1) You're explaining your own personal belief here and not referring to anything.

2) It is not extrajudicial punishment to not hire a child molester to work with children any more than it is extrajudicial punishment to not hire a bank robber to work at a bank.

Exactly. I'm all for giving people who have been in prison employment, but maybe not in the exact way that they went to prison for in the first place. He could have worked at a bagel shop for all I care.

It is not "perfectly reasonable" to hire convicted child molesters on the sex offender registry to work with children. This isn't extrajudicial punishment; this is pretty basic harm reduction.

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