Lashay Dr. Gahan Rhetoric 351 12/6/13 Revised Paper There needs to be a change in the criminal justice system. Convicted felons who are charged with any drug felony should not be put into jail or prison because it doesn’t help solve the problem. Rudy Haapanen states‚ “It is now generally agreed that the criminal justice system fails to rehabilitate offenders‚ to make them less likely to commit criminal acts as a result of treatment or training; that the system fails to deter potential offenders
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Roughly‚ about thirty percent of the US adult population is a convicted felon. Forty-eight of fifty states restrict these criminals’ voting rights; that is the equivalent to millions of unheard voices. Even though many say that offenders should not be trusted with political matters‚ they are still human beings and they deserve their unalienable rights. They are human beings‚ regardless of the crime they have committed and like everyone else‚ they deserve to improve their lifestyle. For this reason
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Convicted Felons Should Not Be Allowed to Vote This essay discusses my reflection on whether or not felons should have the right to vote. A felon is defined as a person who has been convicted of a felony‚ which is a crime punishable by death or a term in state or federal prison. A felony is a serious crime usually punishable by imprisonment or death. Convicted felons should not be allowed to vote. Many Americans were not allowed to vote these past elections. It wasn’t because they didn’t pay taxes
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Convicted Felons Rights As a teen‚ you let the pressures of your peers get to you. You started hanging with the wrong crowd and let the petty crimes pile up on your record. The next thing you know‚ you’re in prison with your first felony. You’ve learned your lesson many years later and prove it by getting a stable job‚ staying out of trouble‚ and living by the law. You’re treated like a regular citizen until you march into the local elementary school on voting day to find out your privilege has
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Wrongfully Convicted: Innocence Being wrongfully convicted of a crime is a life changing experience. Over ten-thousand innocent people every year have to go through this horrible event. (http://researchnews.osu.edu/archive/ronhuff.htm) Eyewitnesses take up a big told in why this happens‚ they will look at the line of people and tell the officers the wrong person‚ maybe not on purpose but the affect they will have on this persons life is unlike any other. Being wrongfully convicted means
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University Author’s Note: Laura E. Winant‚ Department of Criminal Justice‚ Virginia Commonwealth University This paper is an extra credit assignment for Criminological Theory under Professor Morris. Contact: Winantle@mymail.vcu.edu Abstract Felon disenfranchisement is a serious issue in the United States. It removes a person’s right to vote after incarceration. It is sometimes speculated that disenfranchisement racially discriminates. This is often thought to be true because the majority of
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Wade Myers Moore English Comp. II 19 April 2013 Why Felons Should Be Able to Vote Disenfranchised felons should be reintegrated into society and recover their right to vote. Disenfranchisement is the harshest civil sanction imposed by a democratic society. Some of the problems involved with disenfranchisement include racism‚ inaccurate polls‚ and the massive amount of people affected. If the voice of the entire population does not include all sources and agendas‚ the polls will not be accurate
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Morley). Three states out of the fifty do not let convicted felons vote: Kentucky‚ Iowa‚ and Florida. Things have not always been this way. Around the time of 1960-1970‚ felons started to gain their right to vote back. But‚ in 2000‚ 6000‚000 felons who paid their time were still not allowed to vote. As of October 2016‚ 6.1 million people can’t vote in the presidential election because of felony disenfranchisement laws. After convicted felons have paid their debt to society‚ they should be able
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Felons should not have the right to vote while in prison‚ but when they get out of prison they should be able to apply for restitution‚ so that they can get their rights back. No-one that is guilty of any crime should be allowed to vote until they have finished serving their punishment. If you have done something to wrong the country than one of the punishment should be losing the privilege to vote‚ because by voting people make decisions for the country. People who can’t be trusted should definitely
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Final Paper Should Felons Vote 3/5/14 In forty-eight states the felons are not aloud to vote‚ some even don’t allow people on parole to vote. The article was published in 2005‚ from the City Journal. This article then goes into saying that the democrats are taking a stand to allow ex-cons the right to vote. There are different views on this through out the whole United States but this author‚ Edward Feser‚ seems like he is taking the stand to allow them to vote by stating in the end that he would
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