A federal appeals court said that barring people convicted of certain felonies from voting pointlessly denied them access to “the democratic core of American citizenship.”
Tag: Ex-Convicts
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The Promise of Prison Music
Music written and performed by incarcerated people has the power to transform how we think about the people who make it.
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Voting by Formerly Imprisoned in Tennessee, Already Hard, Gets Harder
Tennessee has the nation’s second highest number of residents who remain disenfranchised because of past felony convictions.
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A Captured Russian Soldier’s Story: ‘They Just Sent Us to Die’
An inmate hoped to start over with a clean slate by fighting in Ukraine. Instead, he was confronted by the drudgery of trench work and the terror of battle. “You’re going in as meat,” he said he was told.