The Last Mile seems like a great program to share our tech skills and knowledge with people who really need a leg up. I will be signing up as a volunteer today.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
There is nothing more to say, than this also applies to ex-felons.
- Ghandi
If you emphasis punishment rather than rehabilitation, you are setting the scene for discrimination post release. It’s a sort of chicken and egg situation.
I appreciate the irony in claiming this in a thread on someone’s hard earned achievement post release.
Although practically, the sharks in the private prison industry have already tasted blood. They are smart enough to pivot, leaving us with the same perverse incentives, or worse. Way more people can forgive a drug conviction than an involuntary commitment to a mental health institution, and abuse is harder report.
If you have enough felons for them to affect the outcome, your problem isn't that they have the right to vote, it's that you're arresting too many people.