Find: Lesson Plans Felon Disenfranchisement Laws Why shouldn't individuals who have already served their sentences and paid their debt to society be allowed to vote once they have been released from prison Purpose The purpose of this lesson plan is to allow students to learn about felon disenfranchisement laws and formulate their own opinion as to whether or not they believe these restrictive ...

Prisoner Voting Pennsylvania has a Constitution. Under that Constitution, everyone is entitled to vote. The Constitution doesn't disenfranchise prisoners! Of course the conservative politicians are scared to death of allowing prisoners to cast a ballot. They've gotten around the Constitution by not allowing prisoners to register to vote and by not providing them ballots. As a result, for ...

As the US elections were under way November 7, an estimated 3.9 million Americans, or one in fifty adults, were denied the right to vote due to felony and other criminal convictions. In many cases these individuals have been permanently stripped of their voting rights.