Felon Voting

Should people who have completed felony sentences be allowed to vote? (Why or Why Not?)

I think that they should lose the right to vote if they are incarcerated. When they become free again, then those rights will resume once again. We baby our criminals in this country way too much.

As I've told, in Finland all prisoners are allowed to vote. In fact their turnout is usually higher than general population as... well, it's something to do, a change and you don't even have to go out to do it.

And I have no problem with that. Every mentally capable person is to some level a member of society. And the elected officials make decisions effecting potentially more to the lives of prisoners than rest of people, so it's just right they have their vote. No taxation without representation and so on.
I'm used to voting being an absolute inalienable right.

Lämmchen wrote:

We baby our criminals in this country way too much.

Come on, convicts in US have it generally worse than in any first world country and with longer sentences.

Kaunisto wrote:

Lämmchen wrote:

We baby our criminals in this country way too much.

Come on, convicts in US have it generally worse than in any first world country and with longer sentences.

Yeah I was also thinking: baby them??? America???

Kaunisto wrote:

Lämmchen wrote:

We baby our criminals in this country way too much.

Come on, convicts in US have it generally worse than in any first world country and with longer sentences.

Oh, yes, they have it rough....

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Kennith Parker was an inmate of the Nevada State Prison. He was in prison for robbery. His sentence handed down at his criminal trial was for 15 years. During that time he must have developed a taste for the law. It is not clear if Mr. Parker hired a lawyer to represent him in this litigation. The Nevada State Prison has a canteen for inmates to buy, amongst other things, food items. The canteen normally sold both chunky and smooth varieties of peanut butter. The cost of the peanut butter to the convicted criminals was $5.

On one particular day, the canteen only had one chunky peanut butter jar left. In an attempt to be accommodating, they substituted a jar of chunky peanut butter with a jar of smooth peanut butter. Mr. Parker then sued the Nevada State Prison for emotional and mental pain caused by this substitution. He sued for damage of $5,500. In this wacky lawsuit he also asked for the imprisonment of one of the prison officials.

https://kahanelaw.com/wacky-lawsuit-wednesday-convict-vs-prison-aka-chunky-vs-smooth/


There's a similar case involving underwear.

And another about the TV channels available.

And so on...