- 6 Million Lost Voters: State-Level Estimates of Felony Disenfranchisement, 2016 http://www.sentencingproject.org/publications/6-million-lost-voters-state-level-estimates-felony-disenfranchisement-2016/ 5 comments politics
- Race and Punishment: Racial Perceptions of Crime and Support for Punitive Policies; "White Americans are more punitive than people of color." "Whites misjudge how much crime is committed by African Americans and Latinos." http://www.sentencingproject.org/doc/publications/rd_race_and_punishment.pdf 9 comments politics
- Felony disenfranchisement: the vote suppression we never talk about. In 2004, 5.3 million Americans were denied the right to vote due to prior convictions. The United States is the only democracy in the world that bans large numbers of felons from voting after they have discharged their sentences. http://www.sentencingproject.org/detail/news.cfm?news_id=1334&id=133 25 comments politics
- 1 in 40 US adults cannot vote due to a felony conviction. Among African Americans, that number is 1 in 13. In Florida, Kentucky, and Virginia, it's 1 in 5. http://www.sentencingproject.org/doc/publications/fd_state_level_estimates_of_felon_disen_2010.pdf 972 comments politics
- The prison lobby will do to the US what the military-industrial complex is doing to the rest of the world. Stop construction of any more of these complexes! http://www.sentencingproject.org/doc/publications/inc_meaningoflife.pdf 22 comments politics