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AL: All votes count, even prisoners'

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

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Today, there are more than 250,000 people in Alabama who have been disfranchised because of a felony conviction, but nearly 75,000 of these people were convicted of nonviolent drug offenses and have never legally lost their voting rights. Yet nowhere in our state can one find a system in place that distinguishes, for voting purposes, between those convicted of crimes of moral turpitude and those not. Everyone with a felony conviction is barred from voting, contrary to the law. All votes count, even inmates' Sunday, February 03, 2008 As Alabama prepares for the presidential primaries Tuesday, my organization, The Ordinary People Society, has been busy registering people to vote. Our work takes us all over the state, including into many jails and prisons...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on February 08, 2008 (boomark / email).

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