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NAACP to hold voter registration drives at Maine prisons

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

January 16, 2009 - NAACP to hold voter registration drives at Maine prisons Starting this year, the civil rights group will bring more education about voting to prisoners. By ELBERT AULL Portland Press Herald PORTLAND, Maine ? The NAACP will hold annual voter registration drives at every prison in Maine under a recently negotiated agreement with the state Department of Corrections. The agreement sets Aug. 6 - the anniversary of a landmark law that expanded voting rights - as the annual kickoff for a week of registration events at state-run correctional facilities. A little more than a month ago, national NAACP President Benjamin Jealous visited the state to lobby for changes at the Maine State Prison in Warren. The agreement will expand the civil rights group's efforts to bring more voter education to prisons in Maine, where state law allows every inmate to vote...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on January 23, 2009 (boomark / email).