From The Marshall Project:
November’s election — the first to feature a prominent candidate with a slew of felony convictions — comes at an inflection point in the voting rights landscape for the formerly incarcerated.
Roughly 2 million people with felony convictions have regained the right to vote since the late ’90s, according to an analysis by The Sentencing Project, a research and advocacy organization working to reduce the number of people behind bars in the U.S. These restoration efforts — legislative changes, ballot initiatives, and executive actions in 26 states and the District of Columbia — were largely bipartisan.
Despite the sea change, incarcerated people are rarely asked for their political views. Most will be eligible to vote once they return home. In 2020, The Marshall Project’s first-of-its-kind political survey revealed strong support for Trump, shattering a commonly held notion that people behind bars would overwhelmingly support Democrats. Continue reading >>>
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