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Published March 2007 | public
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Locked Out: Felon Disenfranchisement and American Democracy [Book Review]

Abstract

When I worked in my first criminal disfranchisement case in 1979, I thought it was a mere tidying up operation, an effort to overturn the last vestiges of the openly racist 1901 "disfranchisement convention" in darkest Alabama. I never imagined that the issue would become much more critical in the ensuing decades and that in 2006, I would be employed as an expert witness against felon disfranchisement in what claims to be the enlightened state of Washington. In many respects, the world has not moved forward.

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© 2007 Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. Book review of: Jeff Manza and Christopher Uggen. Locked Out: Felon Disenfranchisement and American Democracy. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006, 384 pp. ISBN: 9780195149326. Book review of: Sasha Abramsky. Conned: How Millions Went to Prison, Lost the Vote, and Helped Send George W. Bush to the White House. New York: The New Press, 2006, 304 pp. ISBN: 9781565849662.

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