Voting from Prison: Learning from Maine, Vermont, and Washington, DC
As a follow-up to The Sentencing Project’s recent report, Voting from Prison: Lessons from Maine and Vermont, we hosted a discussion on what we have learned and continue to learn from formerly and currently incarcerated people, advocates and changemakers, and Department of Corrections staff about accessing democracy during incarceration.
Related to: Voting Rights
Very few places in the United States allow incarcerated people completing a felony sentence to vote. Incarcerated people in Maine, Vermont, and Washington, DC retain their right to cast a ballot in elections. As a follow-up to The Sentencing Project’s recent report, Voting from Prison: Lessons from Maine and Vermont, we hosted a discussion on what we have learned and continue to learn from formerly and currently incarcerated people, advocates and changemakers, and Department of Corrections staff about accessing democracy during incarceration.
Panelists:
- Robert Barton – Executive Director, More Than Our Crimes
- Foster Bates – Incarcerated resident, Maine
- Nick Deml – Former Commissioner of the Vermont Department of Corrections
- Joseph Jackson – Executive Director, Maine Prisoner Advocacy Coalition and Co-Executive Director, Maine Inside Out
Moderator: Kristen M. Budd, Senior Research Analyst at The Sentencing Project
