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Restoring the Vote.
American Prospect, The, August, 2001 by RAPOPORT, MILES S.
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THE DISENFRANCHISEMENT of people convicted of felonies is one of the great exclusions of civic life in the United States. The problem's dimensions are large and growing larger. As of 1998, according to the Sentencing Project's groundbreaking 1999 report Losing the Vote: The Impact of Felony Disenfranchisement Laws in the United States, 3.9 million Americans were barred from voting as a result of felony convictions and a patchwork of inconsistent laws governing the restoration of voting rights.
Current estimates raise this figure to 4.2 million. Almost one-third of these ...
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