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VA: Voting rights elusive for people with felony convictions

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

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Voting rights elusive for ex-felons Virginia joins Kentucky with harsh reinstatement laws by : Scott Weaver In the coming summer months, when Virginia Organizing Project (VOP) organizer Harold Folley knocks on doors and talks to folks about the 2008 elections, inevitably some will tell him that they aren?t able to vote. And just maybe, Folley will lean in and pry a bit, stick his nose in their business, and discover that a felony conviction, even decades old, has taken away someone?s civil rights. The Sentencing Project, a national organization that works on criminal justice issues, estimates that 5.3 million Americans?one in 41 adults?have lost their voting rights because of a felony conviction. And while each state has its own laws regarding the restoration of a felon?s civil rights, Virginia has one of the harshest sets of laws that make restoring your civil rights after a felony conviction a slog through a bureaucratic wasteland...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on May 23, 2008 (boomark / email).