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Article • July 15, 2001 • from PLN July, 2001
Massachusetts Disenfranchises its Prisoners by Massachusetts Disenfranchises Its Prisoners by Peter Wagner On November 7, 2000, by a 2 to 1 margin, Massachusetts disenfranchised its prisoners with a constitutional amendment called Question 2. Question 2 marked the first time that the Massachusetts constitution had been amended to take away rights …
Article • May 15, 2001 • from PLN May, 2001
Bogus Felons List Results in Suppression of Florida Votes by Ronald Young Bogus Felons List Results In Suppression of Florida Votes by Ronald A. Young Undoubtedly, it was the politically motivated decision handed down by five U.S. Supreme Court justices to put a halt to counting untallied Florida votes which …
Article • October 15, 2000 • from PLN October, 2000
Massachusetts Prisoners' Political Action Committee Floundering by Massachusetts prisoners were set back in their electoral efforts when the formation of a political action committee (PAC) inside the walls of the Massachusetts Correctional Institution was banned by executive order of Republican Governor Paul Cellucci. Guards confiscated the prisoners' political materials and …
Article • October 15, 2000 • from PLN October, 2000
Filed under: Organizing, Voting
NH Supreme Court Overturns Prisoner Voting Rights by Ronald Young By Ronald Young As previously reported in PLN, New Hampshire state prisoner David J. Fischer successfully litigated the right of New Hampshire prisoners to cast absentee ballots in local, state, and federal elections. Fischer alleged that legislation prohibiting felons from …
Article • October 15, 2000 • from PLN October, 2000
Filed under: Editorials, Organizing, Voting
From the Editor by Paul Wright Paul Wright Recent issues of PLN have reported on criminal justice news in Texas and the response from Republican presidential candidate, George Bush Jr., to these events. PLN has reported on Bush's supervision of the Texas plantation-like prison system and death machine to duly …
Article • October 15, 2000 • from PLN October, 2000
Arpaio Runs for Reelection on Backs of Prisoners, For the Third Time by Paul Wright By Paul Wright With the American electoral process consisting largely of saccharine spectacle, and with no substantive issues to get in the way of corporate rule, prisoner bashing has become an accepted political path to …
Article • May 15, 1999 • from PLN May, 1999
5th Circuit Upholds Mississippi Disenfranchisement Law by The Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit affirmed a district court's denial of a Mississippi state prisoner's claim that he is improperly being denied the right to vote. The Mississippi Constitution denies the right to vote to any person "convicted of murder, …
Article • May 15, 1999 • from PLN May, 1999
Filed under: Organizing, Voting
New Hampshire Prisoners Gain the Vote by ANew Hampshire Superior Court ruled that state laws prohibiting all incarcerated felons from voting violate the state constitution. On September 4, 1998, state prisoner David J. Fischer sent a letter to the Rochester City Clerk to request "that you register me to vote …
Article • April 15, 1999 • from PLN April, 1999
Losing the Vote: The Impact of Felony Disenfranchisement Laws in the United States (Book Review) by Alex Friedmann Review by Alex Friedmann "The expansion of suffrage toall sectors of the population is one of the United States' most important political triumphs .... Today, all mentally competent adults have the right …
Article • January 15, 1999 • from PLN January, 1999
Arizona Jail Slave Labor Used to Stuff Ballot Envelopes by Prisoners at the Maricopa County Jail (home of "America's Meanest Sheriff") were used to stuff 400,000 envelopes with ballots for early voting in the 1998 elections. Maricopa County Elections Director Karen Osborne said that jail inmates received community service credit …
Article • September 15, 1998 • from PLN September, 1998
Washington Felon Voting Suit Proceeds by In the October, 1997, issue of PLN we reported Farrakhan v. Locke , a lawsuit challenging the felon disenfranchisement provisions of the Washington state constitution which prohibit convicted felons from voting. The defendants filed a motion to dismiss under Fed.R.Civ.P. 12(b)(6), arguing the suit …
Article • December 15, 1997 • from PLN December, 1997
Filed under: Organizing, Voting
Prisoner PAC Announces Formation by We are proud to announce the creation of the Massachusetts Prisoners Association, a newly registered Political Action Committee working on behalf of the more than 20,000 prisoners currently confined within the Massachusetts Prisons and Houses of Correction and their family members, addressing the concerns of …
Article • December 15, 1997 • from PLN December, 1997
Massachusetts Prisoner PAC Assailed by Governor, DOC by Dan Pens In mid-August, Acting Massachusetts Governor Paul Cellucci personally directed prison guards to conduct a shakedown of several state prisons. And what contraband were the guards instructed to root out? Weapons? Drugs? No, something much more sinister and threatening to public …
Article • November 15, 1997 • from PLN November, 1997
Civil Disabilities of Convicted Felon: A State-by-State Survey by Jon Marc Taylor By Jon Marc Taylor Under federal and various state laws, conviction of a felony has consequences that may continue long after the sentence has been served. Convicted felons may lose essential rights of citizenship, such as the rights …
Article • October 15, 1997 • from PLN October, 1997
Felon Disenfranchisement Laws Challenged in Washington by In the January and December, 1996, issues of PLN we reported Baker v. Cuomo, 58 F.3d 814 (2nd Cir. 1995) and Baker v. Pataki, 85 F.3d 919 (2nd Cir. 1996)(en banc) in which New York state prisoners were using the Voting Rights Act …
Plight of Undertrial Prisoners in India by Sankar Sen In India there are 85 central prisons, 252 district prisons, 14 women's prisons, and about 547 sub-jails. The exact number of prisoners in the country is not known. At the end of 1993, according to one estimate, there were about 200,000 …
Article • May 15, 1997 • from PLN May, 1997
Democracy, Racism and Disenfranchisement by One in seven black men are currently or permanently prevented from voting because they are imprisoned or are ex-felons, according to a report released in January, 1997, by the Sentencing Project in Washington DC. There are an estimated 10.4 million voting age black men in …
Article • April 15, 1997 • from PLN April, 1997
Virginia Felons Disenfranchised by Virginia is one of 13 states that permanently revoke the voting rights of felons. As a consequence, nearly a quarter of a million Virginians, most of them black men, cannot vote. A Virginia newspaper, the Richmond Times-Dispatch, examined state police records to compile a report citing …
Article • December 15, 1996 • from PLN December, 1996
New York Voting Rights Case Vacated by In the January, 1996, issue of PLN we reported Baker v. Cuomo , 58 F.3d 814 (2nd Cir. 1995) where the second circuit court of appeals reversed and remanded a lower court ruling dismissing a lawsuit by New York state prisoners challenging the …
Article • August 15, 1996 • from PLN August, 1996
Canadian Prisoners Regain Voting Rights by Michael Klug On December 27, 1995, Canadian prisoners won another round in an on-going legal battle for their fundamental right to vote in Canadian federal elections. A Canadian federal court declared unconstitutional the latest federal ban on prisoner voting. The Canadian government plans to …
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