I agree with the sentiment, but were prisoners able to vote, prisons would get gerrymandered to hell and back. That said, they should still be able to.
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I think you're touching the heart of the problem: the US election system.
In Sweden, prisoners keep their home address and vote in their home district.
To be fair, Sweden's prison system is more progressive than the non-imprisoned experience in some countries.
Switch to Scientific Socialism. Problem solved.
Also quit letting any 2bit idiot have a say on what the country's policies are unless they're qualified to be in that conversation.
Also quit letting any 2bit idiot have a say on what the country’s policies are unless they’re qualified to be in that conversation.
That is such a tempting setup...
Any government that can financially profit from its prisoners also has an incentive to imprison more of its population.
Well, the government isn't profiting from it. Its the people running the government who are invested in private prison companies are personally profiting from it. Along with their golf buddies running said companies.
Privately run prisons as a for profit business is a crime against humanity.
The government would have got a payday when they sold off the prisons in the first place.
Perhaps. But I think many of the private prisons are either built from the ground up by the corporations, or the buildings are still owned by the government, but the companies are paid to operate them for the government.
Or wars.
MAGAs looking to make trump derangement syndrome a mental illness.
mark someone as mentally unstable > hall them of to an asylum > drug or kill them under wraps
america has no idea what its dealing with.
On the other hand, any country that allows its prisoners to vote has a constituency that wants to decriminalize what ever it was that they did.
Not to mention, that arresting is not imprisonment. Merely being arrested doesn't put you in prison, you need to be convicted first. When cops can easily follow orders from the top to arrest people with the wrong skin colour, getting people arrested is easy. But, with a decent system of courts, it's a lot harder to convict them.
Look, I get that the context is about political prisoners. But, really, if the system is so corrupted that people are being convicted of something merely based on their politics, it's laughable to think that it has free and fair elections and that voting by prisoners is going to change things.
On the other hand, any country that allows its prisoners to vote has a constituency that wants to decriminalize what ever it was that they did.
What's wrong with that?
Millions have been arrested and convicted over absurd "crimes" without a single victim to be found. Of course they want it to be decriminalized, as does their family, friends, and many fellow citizens. As it should be.
What's wrong with that?
It depends on what they did. Maybe they want to make insulting the king legal, that might be a good thing. Maybe they want to make sex with children legal...
Us people: criminals shouldn't be allowed to vote!
Then proceed to vote for and elect a criminal.
Then they do it again. Just because.
If anyone needs representation, it's prisoners.
In the US, slavery is legal for prisoners. The US has the largest prison population in the world. This is not a coincidence.
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Just another way to silence dissenters in an authoritarian regime that will never speak for, or care about, the common person.
More fun facts, slavery is still legal in the USA (for prisoners) and the USA imprisons a higher proportion of its population than any other country. The ruling class just makes everything illegal and enjoys unlimited slave labor!
They intend to greatly increase the use of prisoner slave labor, and will be using it to punish political prisoners they have labeled ANTIFA terrorists, just for posting messages like this one.
They want to identify everyone on the Internet, not so they can keep children from learning that boys and girls have different genitalia, but so they can find the ANTIFA Terrorists, imprison them, take away their right to vote, and then lease them out to Sociopathic Oligarchs for whatever dangerous, unregulated work they need done - mining, environmental clean-up, construction, roadwork, crop harvesting, etc.
All those jobs that immigrants used to do? ANTIFA Terrorists can do them.
More non violent prisoners behind bars than any country to ever exist!
Not only do I think non-incarcerated felons should have the right to vote, I think currently incarcerated should as well. Hell, set up a voting location in the prison.
In Canada, currently incarcerated people are allowed to vote by special ballot
Especially since those states are counting those prisoners among the residents in the census.
The entire fucking point is to get the benefits for those additional people, while not having to worry about them voting (likely against the people who put them there)
Important distinction, the census counts the prisoners as residents of the county in which the prison sits. The prisoners are almost always already residents of the state. It’s called prison gerrymandering, and it unfairly advantages the county and districts in which the prisons lie, almost always rural and almost always to Republican advantage.
It is legal in most states for non felons to vote from prison/jail, of course some states make it difficult.
Well, not to put too fine a point on it, but there are no non-felons in prison. But there are those in county jails awaiting trial who are not yet convicted (or will be found not guilty) of a crime, and your point is an important one.
If we want to get too technical there are some states that place people that commit certain misdemeanors in prison as opposed to jails.
It's not the majority, but it does happen.
That's how it works in most civilised countries.
That is how it works in a democracy
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red states use prisoners as part of the census, so they can maintain the gop house seats in thier states.
One of the many ways in which those in power in the US systematically enslave and disenfranchise people of color to this day.
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