One of the best ways to reduce crime, imho, is too keep a parolee from going back to a life of crime.

Likely I would hire them, depending on what crime they were convicted for. I’m not going to hire anyone convicted of a sex crime if I have women working for me, for example.

Also, depends on what evidence was used to convict. Fingerprints are unique but part of a fingerprint is not. Bite-mark identification is a joke. Eyewitness testimony is unreliable especially when months or years can pass between being charged and the trial. AI facial recognition is famously unreliable when people of colour are involved.