Galsworthy Criminal Justice Reform Program

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When People in Prison Can Vote, Officials "Treat Them with Some Respect"

“She added that voting from prison “does not negate their incarceration or any work done by law enforcement to put them there” but that it could “force elected officials who played a part [to] think twice about likening them to animals. If more district attorneys, mayors, governors or attorney generals, knew that every inmate could vote in their elections, they may start seeing them in a different light…maybe even treat them with some respect.”“

The Appeal: Political Report

November 22, 2019