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Grassroots organization advocates for incarcerated voters’ rights

March 5, 2025 by Michael Callahan

Since the 1920s The League of Women Voters has impacted elections of state and local governments Just two months removed from the presidential … [Read more...]

Filed Under: CRIMINAL JUSTICE REFORM, WOMEN IN PRISON Tagged With: League of Women Voters, voting rights

Proposition 17 frees the vote of the formerly incarcerated

November 30, 2020 by Vincent O'Bannon

More than 40,000 parolees will head to the ballot box in the future.  California voters approve the Free the Vote Act this November.  The right to … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Prop 17, voting rights

Shifting the way we count incarcerated persons

March 30, 2019 by Aron Kumar Roy

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A new law will give California prisoners political power by counting them as residents of their home communities rather than in the communities where … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Aron Roy, gerrymandering, Politics, voting rights

Noncitizens allowed to vote in local San Francisco elections

March 9, 2019 by Anthony Manuel Caravalho

San Francisco became the largest city in the nation to allow noncitizens to vote in local elections, according to the Los Angeles Times. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: ICE - IMMIGRATION, POLITICS Tagged With: Immigration, San Francisco, voting rights

Returning citizens tend to be more politically involved

December 25, 2018 by Jesse Vasquez

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Political science professors Hannah L. Walker and Michael Leo Owens allege that formerly incarcerated individuals tend to be more politically involved … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Illinois, voter registration, voting rights

Florida hosts prison reform conference – FICPFM

November 30, 2018 by San Quentin News Contributor

Photo by Dale Ramos

More than 50 social justice organizations led by formerly incarcerated people met in Orlando, Fla., last month. The occasion was the second national … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Alabama, FICPFM, Florida, voting rights

Kentucky voting rights may change for ex-felons

September 11, 2018 by Salvador Solorio

People at the voting booth

Kentucky’s practice of permanently stripping away the voting rights of citizens convicted of felonies may soon change, according to Attorney Ben … [Read more...]

Filed Under: CRIMINAL JUSTICE REFORM Tagged With: Executive Clemency Board, Florida, Iowa, Kentucky, The Courier-Journal, voting rights

Running from the prison cell to public office

April 24, 2018 by Rahsaan Thomas

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‘Should we bear the burden of our past when our present has been involved in fixing the future?’ Lewis Conway Jr., a formerly incarcerated man, is … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Profiles, texas, voting rights

Alabama restores voting rights without notification

October 31, 2017 by Joe Garcia

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Alabama recently passed a law to restore voting rights to most of its citizens with felony records.  A federal judge, however, ruled that this new law … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Alabama, voting rights

New Law Would Restore Voting Rights to Ex-Felons

July 1, 2015 by John Lam

People at the voting booth

Congress is considering legislation to restore federal voting rights to former prisoners. “The right to vote is the most basic constitutive act of … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: voting rights

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