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2 Editorials on Expanding Democracy & Disenfranchisement

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

June 30, 2008 Editorial, NY Times Expanding Democracy in Florida Among the world?s democracies, the United States is uniquely unforgiving in denying ex-offenders the right to vote. Nowhere is the problem worse than in Florida, where criminal justice experts estimate that as many as 950,000 felons are barred from the voting booth. Last year, Gov. Charlie Crist pushed through new rules that made it easier for some ex-offenders to become full citizens and helped restore voting rights to more than 100,000 former prisoners. But this is well short of what?s needed ? a complete overhaul of a wildly illogical system. In most states, inmates win back their voting rights as soon as they are released from prison or when they complete parole or probation...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on June 30, 2008 (boomark / email).