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NAACP's president returns to Maine for voter drive in prisons

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

NAACP's president returns to Maine for voter drive in prisons BY TREVOR MAXWELL Kennebec Journal & Morning Sentinel 09/30/2009 Less than a year after he came to Maine to lobby for prison reform and ensure that inmates have an opportunity to vote, the president of the NAACP led a voter registration drive on Tuesday at five of the state's seven correctional facilities for adults. Benjamin Jealous, president and chief executive officer of the NAACP, said more than 100 inmates registered to vote at the Maine State Prison in Warren, and he was waiting for a tally on the other four facilities. The effort, he said, was the first system-wide voter registration project in the history of America's prisons. "It was a great day," Jealous said after leaving Warren on Tuesday afternoon...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on September 30, 2009 (boomark / email).