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by rcrestomods
1459 days ago
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On a related noted, a friend Dr. Brett Derbes in History is currently compiling his graduate work into a book about prison labor, methods, and output in the Antebellum South and during the Civil War. Some of the things he shared with me in the process have been hard to stomach. Would it be legally possible in the US circa 2022 and beyond to run a "silent prison" where no talking was allowed among inmates sun up to sun down & when working? That was actually part of a movement in prison management. I just shake my head and hope for more efforts to rehabilitation and social acceptance such as the FL citizen result indicating a majority would like to restore voting rights to Felons in this modern world. Times can change! |
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Just for comparison: In my home country (Germany) you can only use the right to vote for crimes against democracy (incitement to insurrecton, attempted insurrection, high treason, voting fraud, ...). This additional punishment has to be added by the judge, and it for at most 5 years.
This affects, in a country with 80Mio inhabitants, about 1.4 individuals per year.
For comparison, in the USA, the flagship of western democracy, the democratic human right to vote is taken from Millions (!) of citizens. Most of them black, who'd thunk...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disfranchisement#Germany
https://www.sueddeutsche.de/politik/deutsches-strafrecht-wah...