Editorial | Ex-felons deserve voting rights, too | Kentuckians For The Commonwealth

Editorial | Ex-felons deserve voting rights, too

Editorial
July 18, 2012
The Courier-Journal

Our criminal justice system punishes those who break the law, and, once their debt to society is paid, allows them to reenter the community. Many of these ex-felons manage to stay clean, get jobs and raise families, like anyone else. Yet in Kentucky, they remained permanently banned from a fundamental American activity: Voting.

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