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By Glenn C. Loury

ISBN-10: 0262123118

ISBN-13: 9780262123112

ISBN-10: 1435662881

ISBN-13: 9781435662889

Why stigmatizing and confining a wide section of our inhabitants should still be unacceptable to all americans.

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In Alabama and Florida, nearly a third of all black men are permanently disenfranchised. In Iowa, Mississippi, Virginia, and Wyoming, roughly a quarter are permanently barred. The potential effects of this massive exclusion were driven home by the agonizingly close 2000 presidential race in Florida in which George Bush ostensibly won the state by 530something votes. Florida disenfranchises more people than any other state—approximately 827,000. Slightly over 600,000 of those individuals have completed their sentences and have been discharged entirely from the criminal justice system.

Suppose we had to stop thinking of us and them. What social rules would we pick if we actually thought that they could be us? I expect that we would still pick some set of punishment institutions to contain bad behavior and protect society. But wouldn’t we pick arrangements that respected the humanity of each race, incarceration, 30 and american values individual and of those they are connected to through bonds of social and psychic affiliation? If any one of us had a real chance of being one of those faces looking up from the bottom of the well—of being the least among us—then how would we talk publicly about those who break our laws?

The potential effects of this massive exclusion were driven home by the agonizingly close 2000 presidential race in Florida in which George Bush ostensibly won the state by 530something votes. Florida disenfranchises more people than any other state—approximately 827,000. Slightly over 600,000 of those individuals have completed their sentences and have been discharged entirely from the criminal justice system. 4 percent of the non-black population. A recent study by Chris Uggen and Jeff Manza estimated that, had ex-offenders who had completed their sentences been permitted to vote—presumably at the same rate as their socioeconomically comparable, but not disenfranchised, peers—Al Gore would have carried Florida by more than 31,000 votes.

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