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"Voting Behind Bars" by Linda Greenhouse

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Voting Behind Bars By LINDA GREENHOUSE July 29, 2010 NY Times: Opinionator Another public conversation about race may be the last thing the Obama administration wants, but thanks to the Supreme Court, one is very likely on the way. It has been nearly three months since the court ?invited? ? that is to say, ordered ? Solicitor General Elena Kagan to ?express the views of the United States? on whether laws that take away the right to vote from people in prison or on parole can be challenged under the Voting Rights Act as racially discriminatory. The order came in a case from Massachusetts, Simmons v. Galvin, an appeal by prison inmates challenging a 10-year-old state constitutional amendment that stripped them of the right to vote while incarcerated...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on July 30, 2010 (boomark / email).