re: #156 Hecuba’s daughter

“An estimated 15 percent of African Americans are denied the right to vote in Alabama because they have been convicted of a crime, including nonviolent crimes such drug-related charges, according to reports by The New York Times and The Washington Post.”

End-game of the school-to-prison pipeline. Wording of the Alabama law shows that most of the 15% are actually not barred from voting, but don’t know it.

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