In Illinois, there are just under 30,000 people incarcerated in state prisons who are restricted from voting, but yet are still impacted by the decisions of those elected officials that they cannot vote for. Advocates at Chicago Votes have identified this as a critical error in state government after observing an off-putting intersection in those […]
“Money bond is ransom!” That’s what community members plastered on posters in protest as they advocated for a world where people’s freedom didn’t depend on their bank account balance. The assumption that those who can afford an arbitrarily assigned bond amount are less likely to be guilty is absurd. The assumption that pretrial incarceration determined […]
Felony disenfranchisement plagues people suffering from mass incarceration in a number of ways. These include people imprisoned in 48 of 50 states and those released from prison in 18 states. People often forget that these are not the only way that people are disenfranchised by the effects of the corrections department. While incarcerated in jails […]