![]() Likewise, an analysis by the Prison Policy Initiative finds that several Republican seats in the New York State Senate would be in jeopardy if prisoners in upstate correctional institutions were counted in their home neighborhood in New York City.Ĭlearly the “what to do” advice is stay out of jail! Though you might also want to be there after collapse. If prisoners in Texas were enumerated in their home county rather than where they are incarcerated, Houston would likely have one additional state representative in the latest round of redistricting. Census Bureau counts prisoners is “compelling” according to a report of the National Research Council. The evidence of political inequities in redistricting due to the way the U.S. In Arizona and Florida, an estimated 9 to 10% of voting-age Latino citizens are disenfranchised because of their criminal record. In the three states with the highest rates of African American disenfranchisement-Florida, Kentucky, and Virginia-more than one in five African Americans is disenfranchised. The distribution of disenfranchised felons varies greatly by state, race, and ethnicity because of variations in state disenfranchisement statutes and state incarceration rates. ![]() This rate is about three times greater than the disenfranchisement rate for non-African Americans One of every 13 African Americans of voting age, or approximately 7.7%, is disenfranchised. voting-age population, or 1 in 40 adults. This figure represents about 2.5% of the total U. Supreme Court has generally upheld such laws, except in instances of clear and convincing evidence that they were enacted with a racially discriminatory intent.Īs of 2010, nearly 6 million people were disenfranchised because of a felony conviction -a 5-fold increase since 1976. Senate for much of the 1990s, as well as several additional governorships, had former felons been permitted to vote.Īfter the Civil War, public officials carefully tailored their felon disenfranchisement laws so as to circumvent the Fifteenth Amendment and thus restrict the vote of newly freed blacks. 192) estimate that if Florida had not banned an estimated 800,000 former felons from voting in the 2000 election, Al Gore would likely have carried the state and won the White House, and also contend that the Democratic Party would likely have controlled the U.S. Here are a few of the political consequences of incarceration that have affected all of us: The growth in incarceration rates in the United States over the past 40 years is historically unprecedented and internationally unique.” rate of incarceration, with nearly 1 of every 100 adults in prison or jail, is 5 to 10 times higher than rates in Western Europe and other democracies. ![]() In 2012, close to 25% of the world’s prisoners were held in American prisons, although the United States accounts for about 5% of the world’s population. penal population of 2.2 million adults is the largest in the world. I’ve excerpted about one-sixth of it below. This National Research Council 465-page report may be the most comprehensive study of the U.S.
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