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Conned
Sasha Abramsky
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Description for Conned
Hardback. Num Pages: 304 pages, 12 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JPHF; JPVH1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 214 x 150 x 27. Weight in Grams: 498.
This book talks about Felony disenfranchisement laws, which remove the vote from people while they are in prison or on parole, and, in several states, for the rest of their lives. Award-winning journalist Sasha Abramsky takes us on a journey through disenfranchised America, detailing the revival of anti-democratic laws that came of age in the post-Civil War segregationist South, and profiling Americans who are fighting to regain the right to vote. From the Pacific Northwest to Miami, with stops in a dozens states in between, Abramsky shows for the first time how this growing problem has played a decisive role ... Read more
This book talks about Felony disenfranchisement laws, which remove the vote from people while they are in prison or on parole, and, in several states, for the rest of their lives. Award-winning journalist Sasha Abramsky takes us on a journey through disenfranchised America, detailing the revival of anti-democratic laws that came of age in the post-Civil War segregationist South, and profiling Americans who are fighting to regain the right to vote. From the Pacific Northwest to Miami, with stops in a dozens states in between, Abramsky shows for the first time how this growing problem has played a decisive role ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
The New Press United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781565849662
SKU
V9781565849662
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Ref
99-15
About Sasha Abramsky
Sasha Abramsky is an award-winning journalist whose writing has appeared in the New York Times, The Nation, Rolling Stone, Mother Jones, amongst others. He is the author of Hard Time Blues: How Politics Built A Prison Nation, and teaches at the University of California.
Reviews for Conned
"It sems when you're convicted of a felony, the scarlet letter is there. You take it everyhwere with you." - JAMAICA S., A 25-YEAR OLD WHO WAS PUT ON PROBATION IN TENNESSEE AND LOST HER RIGHT TO VOTE."