• abbotsbury@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    In the US, this is used to deny voting rights to minority groups, who make up a large proportion of the prison population.

    Sure sounds like The Powers That Be are trying to prevent marginalized people from voting, we should probably vote against that. I wonder which party is more favorable to enfranchising convicts and making voting easier.

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      8 months ago

      I wonder which party is more favorable to enfranchising convicts

      neither the republican or establishment democrats are interested in that

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          8 months ago

          oh really? NYS is a blue state no? One of the bluest, as I have been told. Should have some decent legislation surrounding incarceration, right? You ever hear of securis? Do you know how much it costs to talk to an incarcerated individual over the phone and how much that company makes in profit price gouging incarcerated folks families?

          Democrats allow this to happen.

          In new york, they were making hand sanitizer for COVID with prison labor. Yea, big blue New York uses prison labor. Very left of them. I’m sure the democrats are really interested in rights for convicts.

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            8 months ago

            So, because New York state uses prison labor, that means Republicans haven’t been drastically more active in removing access to voting? That really the best you can do? No shit Democrats suck, hot take dude, they’re still not as rabidly opposed to enfranchisement as Republicans.