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Racial Disparity |
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Drug Policy |
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Felony Disenfranchisement |
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Collateral Consequences |
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August 20, 2012
(The Sentencing Project)
State-Level Estimates of Felon Disenfranchisement in the United States, 2010The Sentencing Project released a new report, State-Level Estimates of Felon Disenfranchisement in the United States, 2010, which documents that by 2010 a record 5.85 million people were disenfranchised as a result of a felony conviction. The number of disenfranchised person has increased dramatically along with the rise in criminal justice populations in recent decades, rising from an estimated 1.17 million in 1976 to 5.85 million today.
Of the total disenfranchised population, about 45% -- 2.6 million people – have completed their sentences, but reside in one of the 11 states that disenfranchise people post-sentence. In addition, 1 of every 13 African Americans of voting age is disenfranchised, and in three states -- Florida, Kentucky, and Virginia – the figure is one in five. The full report can be viewed here. Read The Huffington Post Read New Orleans Times Picayune Read Tampa Tribune Read Sun Sentinel (FL) Read Louisville Courier Journal Read Daily Beast Read The Grio Read The Guardian Read NBC4 DC Read Think Progress Read The New York Times Editorial Read The Washington Post Read WTOP (DC) Read The Guardian Read Times Dispatch Read The Guardian Read Mother Jones Read NPR
Issue Area(s): Sentencing Policy, Racial Disparity, Felony Disenfranchisement, Collateral Consequences |
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