Reentry News
Kemp Says Ex-Felons Should Be Able to Vote
By JEFFREY McMURRAY | Associated Press Writer
"WASHINGTON -- Jack Kemp, the former Republican vice presidential candidate and HUD secretary, urged Congress on Tuesday to require states to restore voting rights for felons once they complete their sentences."
State - Former convicts among `prison circus' performers
By Michele McPhee
"Among the strongmen, singers and other Operation Starting Line performers who entertained violent prisoners at state facilities last month were five ex-cons with their own checkered pasts, Department of Correction officials said yesterday."
A Call to Let Felons Start Fresh
San Francisco supervisors urge deletion of the question about prior felonies from public job applications.
By Lee Romney, Times Staff Writer
"SAN FRANCISCO — Elected leaders here Tuesday took a step unusual for politicians: They sided with felons.
With no debate, supervisors unanimously urged the city and county to delete the question about prior convictions from public employment applications."
Editorial: Voting Rights, Human Rights
New York Times
"The United States has the worst record in the democratic world when it comes to stripping convicted felons of the right to vote. Of the nearly five million people who were barred from participating in the last presidential election, for example, most, if not all, would have been free to vote if they had been citizens of any one of dozens of other nations. Many of those nations cherish the franchise so deeply that they let inmates vote from their prison cells.”
CA: GPS law stirs civil rights concerns Registration Required
By Jill Leovy, Los Angeles Times (registration)
"California probation officials have gained broad authority to latch global positioning system devices onto their charges under a new law that critics call unprecedented for government surveillance."
Montgomery Leaders Advocate Prison Reentry Reform
We've been staring at some of these statistics for decades. For the last 30 years, the re-arrest rate for people released from prison across the country has stayed between 67 and 69 percent. Even here in Alabama, the same holds true. Over half of our inmates serving time have been in prison before, so many people are saying this is a sign that prisons alone are not the solution.
By JEFFREY McMURRAY | Associated Press Writer
"WASHINGTON -- Jack Kemp, the former Republican vice presidential candidate and HUD secretary, urged Congress on Tuesday to require states to restore voting rights for felons once they complete their sentences."
State - Former convicts among `prison circus' performers
By Michele McPhee
"Among the strongmen, singers and other Operation Starting Line performers who entertained violent prisoners at state facilities last month were five ex-cons with their own checkered pasts, Department of Correction officials said yesterday."
A Call to Let Felons Start Fresh
San Francisco supervisors urge deletion of the question about prior felonies from public job applications.
By Lee Romney, Times Staff Writer
"SAN FRANCISCO — Elected leaders here Tuesday took a step unusual for politicians: They sided with felons.
With no debate, supervisors unanimously urged the city and county to delete the question about prior convictions from public employment applications."
Editorial: Voting Rights, Human Rights
New York Times
"The United States has the worst record in the democratic world when it comes to stripping convicted felons of the right to vote. Of the nearly five million people who were barred from participating in the last presidential election, for example, most, if not all, would have been free to vote if they had been citizens of any one of dozens of other nations. Many of those nations cherish the franchise so deeply that they let inmates vote from their prison cells.”
CA: GPS law stirs civil rights concerns Registration Required
By Jill Leovy, Los Angeles Times (registration)
"California probation officials have gained broad authority to latch global positioning system devices onto their charges under a new law that critics call unprecedented for government surveillance."
Montgomery Leaders Advocate Prison Reentry Reform
We've been staring at some of these statistics for decades. For the last 30 years, the re-arrest rate for people released from prison across the country has stayed between 67 and 69 percent. Even here in Alabama, the same holds true. Over half of our inmates serving time have been in prison before, so many people are saying this is a sign that prisons alone are not the solution.
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