I favor criminal justice reform, prison reform to protect basic human rights, and efforts to lessen mass incarceration. The proposal to give people in prison the right to vote undercuts all of the aforementioned efforts because it creates a backlash. It allows even reasonable advocates of criminal justice reforms to be lumped in with "thug huggers" who want to allow terrorists and mass murderers like Dzhokhar Tsarnaev to help direct the future of our nation.
Creating an unnecessary backlash
Creating an unnecessary backlash
Creating an unnecessary backlash
I favor criminal justice reform, prison reform to protect basic human rights, and efforts to lessen mass incarceration. The proposal to give people in prison the right to vote undercuts all of the aforementioned efforts because it creates a backlash. It allows even reasonable advocates of criminal justice reforms to be lumped in with "thug huggers" who want to allow terrorists and mass murderers like Dzhokhar Tsarnaev to help direct the future of our nation.