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California aims to restore the right to vote for felons

April 18, 2018 by Rahsaan Thomas

Registered voters signing the initiative

California is joining the nationwide trend aimed at restoring the right to vote to convicted felons. A nonprofit called Initiate Justice is seeking … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Legal, Recently Posted Tagged With: Bobby Harrison, California, Daily Journal, Executive Clemency Board, Florida, Floridians for a Fair Democracy, Initiate Justice, Mark Walker, Mississippi, Restore Democracy Act, Samuel Alito, Taina Vargas- Edmund

Average inmate pay drops despite billions on prisons

July 1, 2017 by Marcus Henderson

In a billion-dollar prison labor market, wages for incarcerated people nationwide have declined since 2001, a recent report says. The April report by … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Education Tagged With: Alabama, Arkansas, California, Florida, Georgia, PPI, South Carolina, texas

Human Rights Watch: Alison Parker Addresses Juvenile Lifer Policies Across America

September 1, 2015 by Alison Parker

Back in 2004, when I first started working on the problem of children being sentenced to life without parole (LWOP), a lot of people told me … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Youth Offender Tagged With: Florida, Human Rights Watch

Eric Holder Pushes to Restore Ex-Felons’ Right to Vote

May 25, 2014 by Lee Jaspar

During a speech at Georgetown University Law Center, Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. urged states to restore voting rights of felons after their … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Legal Tagged With: ACLU, Eric H. Holder, Florida

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