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For Those Once Behind Bars, A Nudge to the Voting Booth

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

For Those Once Behind Bars, A Nudge to the Voting Booth By Krissah Williams Thompson Washington Post Staff Writer Monday, August 11, 2008; A01 TALLAHASSEE -- Herbert Pompey had gone through rehab, stayed sober, held a job, married and started a landscaping business in the two years since he walked out of Taylor Correctional Institution. But what Pompey hadn't done -- and what he assumed a string of felony drug and DUI convictions would keep him from ever doing again -- was vote. So his pulse quickened when civil rights lawyer Reggie Mitchell called to tell him that his rights had been restored. "You're eligible to vote now, Mr. Pompey," Mitchell said, calmly relaying the news. "Can I bring you a voter-registration card?" Pompey whispered, "Lord, you was listening...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on August 14, 2008 (boomark / email).