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Some argue that felons have shown poor judgment, and that they should therefore not have a voice in the political decision-making process. [4] Opponents have argued that such disfranchisement restricts and conflicts with principles of universal suffrage. [5] It can affect civic and communal participation in general. [1]
Two guest authors weigh in on both sides of the issue voters will decide on Election Day. | Opinion
“The last thing you want is an informed and educated prison population,” said the editor of Prison Legal News. Its publications have been blocked by the Missouri Department of Corrections.
If Washington enacts HB 2030, it would join only Maine, Vermont and the District of Columbia in allowing prisoners to vote. Advocates say voting should be an inalienable right, regardless of ...
The right to vote is the foundation of any democracy. Chief Justice Earl Warren, for example, wrote in Reynolds v. Sims, 377 U.S. 533, 555 (1964): "The right to vote freely for the candidate of one's choice is of the essence of a democratic society, and any restrictions on that right strike at the heart of representative government ...
Richardson v. Ramirez, 418 U.S. 24 (1974), [1] was a landmark decision by the Supreme Court of the United States in which the Court held, 6–3, that convicted felons could be barred from voting beyond their sentence and parole without violating the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution.
They wanted this done in a Committee of the Whole, a rare move in which the entirety of the Senate would serve as one committee to hear the bill, then vote to pass it and send it to the Missouri ...
In the United States, the Prison Litigation Reform Act, or PLRA, is a federal statute enacted in 1996 with the intent of limiting "frivolous lawsuits" by prisoners.Among its provisions, the PLRA requires prisoners to exhaust all possibly executive means of reform before filing for litigation, restricts the normal procedure of having the losing defendant pay legal fees (thus making fewer ...