Claim: "There's a tax credit of $2,400 to bond  that an employer would get for hiring a convicted felon. There's a federal bonding program -- you can get $5,000 to $25,000 in federal money to hire a convicted felon. And there's federal grants for felons to set up their own small businesses."
Fact-check: Leader of Alliance for Safe Communities says employers can get thousands of dollars in tax breaks and bond money to hire convicted felons
Verdict: barely-true
Organisation: PolitiFact
Author: C. Eugene Emery Jr.
Date published: 2013-03-03T00:00:00