Increasing Public Safety by Restoring Voting Rights

 Sentencing Project -  Over 4.6 million Americans cannot vote due to a felony conviction – nearly four times as many people since the onset of mass incarceration in 1973. The forced exile of justice-impacted individuals from voting is a direct ramification of the U.S. prison population surge over the previous five decades. The United States is an international outlier both in its heavy reliance on the criminal legal system and its disenfranchisement of people in prisons and jails, those completing their sentences in the community, and millions of others who are no longer under correctional supervision.