Disenfranchised Felons???

[papagallo73]

Wow, MSNBC must really be low on virtually anything substantive to lie, er, uh, talk about.

This shit is supremely funny.

Ex-felons permanently disenfranchised in some states - Video on NBCNews.com

 

[VaYank5150]

Wow, MSNBC must really be low on virtually anything substantive to lie, er, uh, talk about.

This shit is supremely funny.

Ex-felons permanently disenfranchised in some states - Video on NBCNews.com

As they should be. That is the law of the land. Any takers on wanting to change it?

 

[theDoctorisIn]

Wow, MSNBC must really be low on virtually anything substantive to lie, er, uh, talk about.

This shit is supremely funny.

Ex-felons permanently disenfranchised in some states - Video on NBCNews.com

As they should be. That is the law of the land. Any takers on wanting to change it?

It's the law of some of "the land".

Most states return voting rights to felons after they are released.

 

[beretta304]

Wow, MSNBC must really be low on virtually anything substantive to lie, er, uh, talk about.

This shit is supremely funny.

Ex-felons permanently disenfranchised in some states - Video on NBCNews.com

As they should be. That is the law of the land. Any takers on wanting to change it?

Hopefully an ex-felon will move next door to you.

 

[VaYank5150]

Wow, MSNBC must really be low on virtually anything substantive to lie, er, uh, talk about.

This shit is supremely funny.

Ex-felons permanently disenfranchised in some states - Video on NBCNews.com

As they should be. That is the law of the land. Any takers on wanting to change it?

Hopefully one will move next door to you.

One what? A voter?

 

[lukelk]

Once a person has paid his/her debts, full status is reignstated.

 

[PoliticalChic]

Wow, MSNBC must really be low on virtually anything substantive to lie, er, uh, talk about.

This shit is supremely funny.

Ex-felons permanently disenfranchised in some states - Video on NBCNews.com

As they should be. That is the law of the land. Any takers on wanting to change it?

Yup.....Democrats.


Supreme Court Sonia Sotomayor wants to give jailbirds the right to vote. It's her opinion that the federal Voting Rights Act can be used to force states to allow voting by currently imprisoned felons. Ms. Sotomayor's dissenting opinion in a 2006 felon-voting case should make senators extremely wary of confirming her for the high court.
Ms. Sotomayor is thus in the position of asserting that Congress can prohibit New York from doing something the Constitution itself specifically endorses. It's as if she thinks black and Hispanic felons are convicted in order to deny them the vote, rather than that they are denied the vote as a result of being duly convicted. Her position ignores the fact that it is the convicts' own actions, their crimes - not any state-based racial discrimination - that make those felons ineligible to vote.

As almost every state has done since the United States was founded, New York forbids currently incarcerated or paroled prisoners from voting. Some states go even farther by prohibiting some felons from voting even after they have served their sentences. New York's law is not so stringent. It only applies to felons still under criminal sentences. It equally applies to all felons, black or white.

There is growing evidence that Judge Sotomayor believes some races are more equal than others."
Democrats want to let convicted felons and felons in prison vote! Do you think this should be allowed or not?

 

[catzmeow]

Wow, MSNBC must really be low on virtually anything substantive to lie, er, uh, talk about.

This shit is supremely funny.

Ex-felons permanently disenfranchised in some states - Video on NBCNews.com

As they should be. That is the law of the land. Any takers on wanting to change it?

Hopefully an ex-felon will move next door to you.

I sat down today for a couple of hours with an ex-felon who is a former Gangster Disciple member. He's working, supporting his kids, and volunteering with high risk kids in the community.

I think he should be allowed to vote. Frankly, he's more intelligent and rational than most of the posters here. I work for a living with ex and current felons. I generally find that I prefer them to suburbanites.

 

[bripat9643]

Sotomayor is the dumbest person ever put on the court. She was an Affirmative Action applicant when she when to college. Her reading skills were so bad that counselors told her to read children's books to improve them.

How could such a person even get into college, let alone get a law degree?

Liberals have raked Justice Thomas over the coals for decades with accusations that he isn't the brightest bulb on the court, yet they all endorsed this incredible dingbat.

Wow, MSNBC must really be low on virtually anything substantive to lie, er, uh, talk about.

This shit is supremely funny.

Ex-felons permanently disenfranchised in some states - Video on NBCNews.com

As they should be. That is the law of the land. Any takers on wanting to change it?

Yup.....Democrats.


Supreme Court Sonia Sotomayor wants to give jailbirds the right to vote. It's her opinion that the federal Voting Rights Act can be used to force states to allow voting by currently imprisoned felons. Ms. Sotomayor's dissenting opinion in a 2006 felon-voting case should make senators extremely wary of confirming her for the high court.
Ms. Sotomayor is thus in the position of asserting that Congress can prohibit New York from doing something the Constitution itself specifically endorses. It's as if she thinks black and Hispanic felons are convicted in order to deny them the vote, rather than that they are denied the vote as a result of being duly convicted. Her position ignores the fact that it is the convicts' own actions, their crimes - not any state-based racial discrimination - that make those felons ineligible to vote.

As almost every state has done since the United States was founded, New York forbids currently incarcerated or paroled prisoners from voting. Some states go even farther by prohibiting some felons from voting even after they have served their sentences. New York's law is not so stringent. It only applies to felons still under criminal sentences. It equally applies to all felons, black or white.

There is growing evidence that Judge Sotomayor believes some races are more equal than others."
Democrats want to let convicted felons and felons in prison vote! Do you think this should be allowed or not?

 

[aaronleland]

Wow, MSNBC must really be low on virtually anything substantive to lie, er, uh, talk about.

This shit is supremely funny.

Ex-felons permanently disenfranchised in some states - Video on NBCNews.com

Where do you stand on background checks for gun owners? Should felons be given access to a weapon but not a vote?

 

[Inthemiddle]

I think we should implement the death penalty for every crime whatsoever. Then there's no more disenfranchised felons.

 

[beretta304]

" The results signify rehabilitation programs do work and reduce recidivism by 10-30 percent, particularly among moderate to high-risk offenders."

Leaving 70%-90% that aren't rehabilitated.


"Not all criminals are sentenced to life in prison. Some robbers, rapists and murderers: they do walk the streets after serving their prison sentences. According to Iain Murray, Director of Research, Statistical Assessment Service in Washington D.C., 70 percent of offenders will re-offend; however, only 50 percent of offenders who have participated in a rehabilitation program will re-offend again."


And that's one study.

Incarceration - Can Criminals Be Rehabilitated? - Yahoo! Voices - voices.yahoo.com

 

[beretta304]

This month at the American Enterprise Institute, David Farabee, a research psychologist at the University of California — Los Angeles and the Director of the Integrated Substance Abuse Program Juvenile Justice Research Group, presented his monograph, "Re-Thinking Rehabilitation: Why Can't we Reform Our Criminals?"

For those of you who just worry about crime and are not dealing first hand with this issue, here are what might be some surprising statistics:

600,000 criminals are released into society each year.

70% of all criminals are re-arrested within 3 years of their release from prison.


Why can't we reform our criminals?

 

[beretta304]

Over 75% of these parolees find themselves back in prison within a year, according to California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation statistics.


Interesting Statistics - Prisons, Arrests, Re-arrests, and Substance Abuse at Marty Angelo Ministries

 

[Swagger]

From the moment you're convicted to the moment you're released, voting rights should be suspended.

 

[beretta304]

Summary findings

During 2007, a total of 1,180,469 persons on parole were at-risk of reincarceration. This includes persons under parole supervision on January 1 or those entering parole during the year. Of these parolees, about 16% were returned to incarceration in 2007.

Among nearly 300,000 prisoners released in 15 states in 1994, 67.5% were rearrested within 3 years. A study of prisoners released in 1983 estimated 62.5%.

Of the 272,111 persons released from prisons in 15 states in 1994, an estimated 67.5% were rearrested for a felony or serious misdemeanor within 3 years, 46.9% were reconvicted, and 25.4% resentenced to prison for a new crime.

These offenders had accumulated 4.1 million arrest charges before their most recent imprisonment and another 744,000 charges within 3 years of release.

Released prisoners with the highest rearrest rates were robbers (70.2%), burglars (74.0%), larcenists (74.6%), motor vehicle thieves (78.8%), those in prison for possessing or selling stolen property (77.4%), and those in prison for possessing, using, or selling illegal weapons (70.2%).

Within 3 years, 2.5% of released rapists were arrested for another rape, and 1.2% of those who had served time for homicide were arrested for homicide.


Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) - Recidivism

 

[beretta304]

The group analyzed full or partial data provided by 41 states for inmates released in 1999 and for prisoners leaving in 2004. By 2002, slightly more than 45% in the first wave of releases returned to prison. In 2007, about 43% of the second group returned.


Study: Prisons failing to deter repeat criminals in 41 states - USATODAY.com

 

[beretta304]

STATE RECIDIVISM STUDIES

http://sentencingproject.org/doc/publications/inc_StateRecidivismStudies2010.pdf

 

[beretta304]

From the executive summary:

43.3 percent of those sent home from prison in 2004 were reincarcerated within three years
Recidivism rates range from a low of 22.8 percent in Oregon to a high of 61.2 percent in Minnesota
From 1999 to 2004, recidivism dropped in Kansas by 22.1 percent and rose in South Dakota by 34.9 percent

PEW State-by-State Study Reveals 40% Recidivism Rate - Thinking About Corrections - Corrections Community

 

[beretta304]

California’s recidivism rate has fallen to 65.1% during the past year but the state still leads the nation in the percentage of inmates returned to prison within the first three years of release.

California's recidivism rate drops but remains one of the nation's highest | What The Folly?!