VOTING RIGHTS: Jailhouse Lawyers Speak holds that people in prisons should have the option to vote in all elections.

Stripping away this basic right only upholds and supports the foundation of white supremacy in this nation #right2vote #burntheprisons #prisonershumanrights

ACA 6, voting rights for exincarcerated people in CA gets through committee!

#Right2Vote
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Assembly panel okays voting rights for former prisoners, parolees. Elections and Redistricting Committee approves ACA 6, which would extend voting rights to estimated 40,000 parolees. Nahima Shaffer takes a look in Capitol Weekly. https://capitolweekly.net/panel-okays-voting-rights-for-former-prisoners-parole…
https://twitter.com/Capitol_Weekly/status/1141775692977360900

ACA 6, voting rights for exincarcerated pwople in CA gets through committee!

#Right2Vote
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RT @[email protected]
Assembly panel okays voting rights for former prisoners, parolees. Elections and Redistricting Committee approves ACA 6, which would extend voting rights to estimated 40,000 parolees. Nahima Shaffer takes a look in Capitol Weekly. https://capitolweekly.net/panel-okays-voting-rights-for-former-prisoners-parole…
https://twitter.com/Capitol_Weekly/status/1141775692977360900

All citizens deserve the right to vote, period, @[email protected]. Restoring voting rights is fundamental to reforming our criminal justice system and ending mass incarceration – it cannot be cast aside. #Right2Vote https://www.huffpost.com/entry/cory-booker-prisoners-vote-mass-incarceration_n_5cc8836fe4b05379114bedf4?guccounter=1
Cory Booker Sidesteps Debate Over Letting Prisoners Vote, Calls It 'Frustrating'

“My focus is tearing down the system of mass incarceration," the Democratic candidate said, so fewer people are behind bars.

Just waiting for some centrist to propose that prisoners get 3/5ths of a vote.

#Right2Vote

Seconded.
This moment over the #Right2Vote is telling....
Like lancing a boil with all the bile of dehumanizations coming out.
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People need to understand, those classified as "violent offenders" (a virtually meaningless classification when deeply examined) make up about half of the population of the prison industrial complex.

The *system* wants you to lobby on behalf of only nonviolent offenders
https://twitter.com/jaybeware/status/1121387261763960833