Chapter Nineteen
The following week, being a girl in the later part of her sentence, Jenny had to have an interview with someone called the ‘Re-employment Officer.” This person was not a regular officer in the unit but someone brought in from outside, which was something in her favour as far as Jenny was concerned.
“You’re more educated than most,” the re-employment officer said. “You should be able to get back into higher grade jobs eventually. But you’ll have to work your passage.”
“But there’s the law about convictions being ‘spent’ after a while isn’t there?”
The woman shook her head. “That one was always greatly exaggerated. And it never applied to the best jobs. Yes after two years you’re not obliged to volunteer the information that you’ve a criminal record, but there’s no way o
