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Barriers to Voting in the Twenty-First Century
In the summer of 1997, a small group of inmates at Norfolk State Prison in Massachusetts formed a political action committee to influence public debate about criminal justice and social welfare issues. As had been true of inmates in the commonwealth since the American Revolution, the men in Norfolk were legal voters. An underlying goal of the political action group, according to one of its founders, Joe Labriola (a decorated Vietnam veteran serving a life sentence for murder), was “to make prisoners understand that we can make changes by using the vote.”¹
Within days of its founding, the prisoners’ PAC
Book Chapter
Reminders of Poverty, Soon Forgotten
Hurricane Katrina is only the latest disaster that has shocked Americans into an all-too-fleeting focus on poverty.
Journal Article
