What has Quora done to assure that the prisoners they are actively recruiting to the site will behave and not threaten other users publicly or surreptitiously?

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I'm optimistic that people can change and learn how to integrate productively into society. However, I won't be naive to think that the same patterns of behavior that got someone into prison will not be expressed in other settings. Because I don't really know anything else about the users on Quora besides their self-reported biographies and answers, it is really important to me that the community make value judgments on who is a good acting participant.

I've already had an experience in which a classmate from a prestigious university was set up to interview several vetted prison inmates for an ethnographic study; as one of them was set to be paroled within a week, he sent her letters threatening to rape her. It was a bit of a scandal that I see as a possibility with the more inmates that know about Quora and the type of users Quora has - relatively well-off soft knowledge workers and students.

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I think we should be more concerned of people from the outside world, threatening the prisoners.

I mean....... they are criminals. And people here, are victims.

We are the people who ask questions like Would punishing crime by torture reduce crime?, so we are the greater danger to them, than they are to us. We are here to judge. Their existence repulses us.

They've served their time. Now we should serve ours, toward them.