How long exactly do people have to pay for their crimes?

TSA Hires Convicted Felon

How can you form an air-tight opinion on this when you have so little information? Is this man still 18 and committed this crime mere weeks ago? Or is a 35-year-old man, who has had no other incidents with the law? Does the TSA paperwork request only convictions in the last 7 years, as many applications do? Or did he actually omit the information on purpose? Or is it like TSA has said and he was a minor, in which case the record is expunged? It is the opinions of folks such as yourself that prevent "convicted felons" from being able to return to society and become productive members. You say he was convicted of robbery, was that a petty $50 from a convenience store or did he hold up a bank at gunpoint? Men returning from jail, after having paid their debt to society according to the laws of the country you live in, cannot support themselves or their families in a legal manner, if people like you won't let them work. And fine, you say this is TSA, our security. But there is always an excuse at every job. And again, should this man be expected to spend the rest of his life working at Burger King because he made a mistake once in his life?