Prison Slavery: One More Issue-Voting

  Altnet: Why is No One Fighting for the Voting Rights of Prisoners and Ex-Prisoners?
http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/felon-voting-rights-more-important-voter-id-laws?page=0%2C0

  One  way to keep right-wing candidates in office that favor prison slavery and privatization is to skew the vote in their favor. The recent controversies over slashing the protections of the Voting Rights Act are only one way to accomplish that.

  Taking away the rights of the incarcerated and paroled, often for the rest of their lives, takes out a significant block, not only of voters, but of voters with a vested interest in the outcome of elections.

 What better way to secure your office than to pack our prisons overwhelmingly with people of color? Just one more incentive to fill more cells. It's a vicious circle. They want more people in prison, and they have the power to put them, and keep them there.

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