To say that recovery and rehabilitation is possible as the premise of treatment and criminal justice reform in Virginia and then create this policy to clearly exclude everyone who has ever recovered or gained their life back after mental illness. To alienate and discriminate against those who have already been drastically stigmatized and add language and implement policies that further stigmatize, alienate, discriminate, and create excessive barriers for those who could provide the ultimate treatment protocol. I am extremely disappointed in this language and wording of this horrendous policy. You’ve told people they never have a chance to help others because of who they’ve been but yet hypocritically claim that those with lived experience have better chances of reaching and achieving recovery for themselves and to help others. If this goes through you will lose more than half of your employment population and the treatment will fail without those having lived experience.