Could California be the latest state to restore voting rights to people with felony convictions?
by Kira Lerner from US news | The Guardian on (#68Z5R)
Proposal would allow prisoners to vote in what advocates see as a matter of racial justice - but challenges lie ahead
Before having his sentence commuted by Governor Gavin Newsom last year, Thanh Tran served ten and a half years in prisons and jails across California, a time he described as the most traumatizing and dehumanizing experience of my life".
Had he been able to vote during that time, he said he would have maintained some hope that his community still cared about him.
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