Biden Losing It

[bennyboy]

I can answer this.

A person who's not been willing to uphold their responsibilities in regard to the social contract shouldn't be given a voice in molding it.

Like non-violent black drug offenders and innocent people in jail that took a plea deal because their lawyer recommended they do so? You give the system the power to take away people's votes, and they're going to use it to take away the votes of non-violent black offenders, while blacks are way over-represented in the prison population. Like Bernie Sanders and Happy Skeptic pointed out, this is a way to squash the black vote and it's racist.

If they are innocent, the problem isn't their voting rights in prison. It's that they are in prison at all.

I advocate for the release, with money earmarked for low-interest loans, training and so on, of the majority of prisoners-- ESPECIALLY those who were imprisoned on the 3-strike rule for things that are no longer serious crimes, like possession of marijuana.