(September 30, 2022 at 5:52 pm)bennyboy Wrote:(September 30, 2022 at 12:37 pm)Irreligious Atheist Wrote: 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.
The problem is that they are in prison at all? Well, we're never going to get to a place where there are no innocent people in prison, so that's a moot point. The same goes for the death penalty. Even if one innocent is killed on death row, that's one too many, which is why there can be no death penalty.
