Showing posts with label Inside Voices: We Must Organize a Voting Bloc of Incarcerated People. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Inside Voices: We Must Organize a Voting Bloc of Incarcerated People. Show all posts

Thursday, May 18, 2023

Inside Voices: We Must Organize a Voting Bloc of Incarcerated People

 Askia Afrika-Ber

After the D.C. Council’s historic passage of the Restore the Vote Amendment Act that gave incarcerated people convicted of felonies the right to vote in 2020, I composed a brief missive, detailing my observations of the voter registration process for a D.C. prisoner here at USP Big Sandy in Martin County, Kentucky. I mailed a copy to Mayor Muriel Bowser’s office.