Raul Flynn

Should people with felony convictions automatically regain voting rights after serving their sentences?

My classroom has a poster that says every voice matters, and I hate knowing it is a lie for some of my students' parents. The [Sentencing Project](https://www.sentencingproject.org/app/uploads/2024/03/Locked-Out-2022-Estimates-of-People-Denied-Voting.pdf) reports that 1 in 19 Black adults of voting age is disenfranchised, a rate several times higher than for the rest of the population, because these laws land hardest on communities already over-policed. States like Alabama, Florida, Kentucky, Mississippi, Tennessee, and Virginia keep some of the harshest restrictions in the country, and the racial gap is not an accident of history, it is the predictable result of where enforcement falls. Automatic restoration would not erase those disparities, but it would stop extending them past the prison gate. A democracy that lectures teenagers about civic duty should not then tell their parents the duty ended at sentencing.

the trailers are 25 minutes now. im literally paying to watch ads for movies i wont see

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