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Originally Posted by savmesom11
Ustwo - You may be one of those perfect citizens I have read about but correct me if I am wrong, in the US we are supposed to be working toward rehabilitation. How on earth do you see people contributing (lawfully) to society if we continue to punish them long after their sentence has been served?
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Yes I'm perfect, I've never committed a felony.
Shocking, I know.
I don't believe in rehabilitation, its been proven that we do not rehabilitate prisoners we punish them, the concept of rehabilitation in this country was on religious lines.
I doubt the reason we have such a high recidivism is because they just don't feel they can contribute lawfully without the right to vote.
The only reason this is an issue is that ex-cons vote overwhelmingly for democrats, and we have had close elections in some states that don't allow felons to vote.