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NEWS FLASH 1 // Disenfranchisement

 

Our new report documents that a record 5.85 million people are disenfranchised as a result of a felony conviction and will not be able to vote in the November elections

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NEWS FLASH 2 // The team takes over another mission

(CNN) -- The United States leads the world in the rate of incarcerating its own citizens. We imprison more of our own people than any other country on earth, including China which has four times our population, or in human history. And now, a new Pew report announces that we are keeping even nonviolent inmates behind bars for increasingly longer terms.

This comes at a time when soaring costs of prisons are wreaking havoc on federal, state and local budgets, as schools, libraries, parks and social programs are slashed. When I graduated from the University of California at Los Angeles in 1983, my state spent more on higher education than prisons, a lot more. That equation is now reversed. Money that could have gone into reducing skyrocketing tuition and cuts to education has instead gone to prison and inmates.

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NEWS FLASH 3 // Prison Reform

Newt Gingrich, William Bennett and Reagan Attorney General Edwin Meese endorsed a "right on crime" initiative, calling for rehabilitation measures rather than prison sentences for nonviolent offenders.

They joined liberals who have been dismayed that America has just about the highest rate of incarceration of any nation in history.

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