At least in Ohio, a business who hires a person with a record, gets a tax break. They also offered free job training for people who left prison or jail, or were sentenced for non-violent crimes, training on possible jobs and how to handle interviews and paperwork.
I heard a true story of one young man. His mom had worked for some years, very successfully at a nursing home. When her son got out of jail, he lived with her.  The nursing home fired her since she was harboring a criminal.  Those are common stories for many people. 
Sadly, the regular white American church goer often doesn't know of these issues, or ignored them.