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VA: Churches add to effort to restore voting rights

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Effort seeks to restore felons' voting rights The local project will involve sermons, distributing information and conducting workshops. Daily Press, Newport News VA By DAVID SQUIRES May 24, 2008 M.V. Cooke realizes that she made her own bed ? hard. She didn't realize that she'd have to sleep in it so long ? years after she paid for her crime and made peace. Roderick Hart feels pretty much the same way. Both plan to be in church Sunday as local pastors spur a grass-roots effort to help nonviolent offenders get voting rights restored in time for the Nov. 4 presidential election. For the next two Sundays, local churches will announce the program, pass out the necessary forms and plan workshops for offenders wanting their voting rights restored...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on June 02, 2008 (boomark / email).