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This is one point where I strongly agree. If, indeed, ex-cons have "served
their time", then they should be granted full citizenship. That includes the
right to vote. If we don't feel they're qualified for that, then why did we
let them out? (A special note: Ex-cons tend to have so many doors shut in
their face that for many, returning to crime is their only real option. No
jobs, no real freedoms, no hope. Something about that "just ain't right".)
Edward Kent wrote
For the record, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., perhaps our greatest
national jurisprude as well as Supreme Court justice (As a young man who
had just survived serious wounds in the Civil War, he wrote the classic
study of the Common Law -- the British legal 'bible') inveighed against
the "second punishment," i.e. once one had served his sentence for a
crime he/she should start with a clean slate and no additional
penalties. I believe this was included in his classic essay, "The Path
of the Law." There are literally hundreds of bars to this and that
faced by felons -- particularly in the domain of employment -- in
addition to voting. And we now have -- is it 11 or 13 million felons so
barred?
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