Welcome back to Frown Town! Start your week with Vee and J as they discuss for-profit prisons, felons voting rights, and sentencing disparity.
Call us and leave a voicemail at (425) 224-7621!
Special thank you to FCON for loaning us their song Liquid Fury for our intro! Their bandcamp: https://fcon206.bandcamp.com/track/fcon.
Relevant Links:
Private Prisons in the United States: https://www.sentencingproject.org/publications/private-prisons-united-states/
Capitalizing on Mass Incarceration: https://www.sentencingproject.org/publications/capitalizing-on-mass-incarceration-u-s-growth-in-private-prisons/
Felon Voting Rights: https://www.ncsl.org/research/elections-and-campaigns/felon-voting-rights.aspx
Felony Disenfranchisement Laws (Map): https://www.aclu.org/issues/voting-rights/voter-restoration/felony-disenfranchisement-laws-map
US Prison Sentences Can Vary up to 63% - https://www.theguardian.com/law/2019/jan/10/prison-sentence-discrepancy-judge-courts
Racial Disparity in Sentencing - https://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/publications/racial-disparity-sentencing
