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New ACS issue brief on felon disenfranchisement

By Douglas A. Berman

I just received via e-mail this ACS Issue Brief on felon disenfranchisement by Deborah J. Vagins, Legislative Counsel for the Washington Legislative Office of the American Civil Liberties Union, and Erika Wood, Deputy Director of the Democracy Program at the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law. The issue brief is titled "The Democracy Restoration Act: Addressing A Centuries-Old Injustice," and here is how ACS described this Issue Brief: In this Issue Brief, Vagins and Wood discuss what they see as the next obstacle to overcome in expanding the right to vote as part of America's history of "successful struggles to expand the franchise to include those previously barred from the electorate because of race, class, or gender." According to the authors, "5...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on March 30, 2010 (boomark / email).