disenfranchisement

[Doug Henwood]

>forwarded by Michael Hoover
>
>  > Published Friday, January 21, 2000, in the Miami Herald
>  >
>  >  Florida, other states may let ex-felons vote
>  >
>  >  BY FRANK DAVIES
>  >  fdavies at herald.com
>  >
>  >  WASHINGTON -- One year after a report found that
>  > 3.9 million Americans could not vote because of
>  >  felony records, Florida and 12 other states are
>  > debating whether ex-offenders should have the right
>  >  to vote, according to a follow-up study released this week.

The study, jointly done by the Sentencing Project and Human Rights 
Watch, is at <http://www.hrw.org/reports98/vote/>.

Doug