Jim Crow in Massachusetts? Prisoner disenfranchisement
Group: Prison Policy Initiative
URL: http://www.prisonpolicy.org/reports/mass_disenfranchisement.html
Description
Massachusetts amended its constitution in 2000 to deny prisoners the right to vote. Out of a population of 4.9 million people of voting age, the amendment affects less than 15,000 people. But it creates a stark racial disparity that was likely not intended by the voters.
Tags
corrections, inmates, population, location, county, constituents, voting
Other Attributes
- Sub-location
- Statewide
- Categories
- Sectors (Govt, Non-Profit, etc)
- Non-Profit
- Formats
- HTML
- Location in resource
- N/A
- Internet Available?
- Yes
- Has population data?
- No
- Mappable?
- No
- Updated?
- No
- Frequency
- N/A
- Year(s) of Publication
- 2004
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