Felons Should Regain Voting Rights After Sentences, Holder Says

Felons Should Regain Voting Rights After Sentences, Holder Says
Last year, he announced that low-level, nonviolent drug offenders would no longer be charged with federal crimes that impose strict mandatory minimum sentences. He has also pushed for increased availability of drug-treatment programs and changes in …
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From Jail to Law School: Jim Crow-Era Law Bars Florida Man from Voting …
And I checked myself into a rehabilitation program, treatment program, and after graduating from there, I went to a homeless shelter. And while living at that homeless shelter, I enrolled at one of the local colleges there, Miami Dade College. And I …
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Attorney General Holder believes it is time ex-felons have their right to vote …
We're investing in evidence-based diversion programs – like drug treatment initiatives and veterans courts – that can serve as alternatives to incarceration in appropriate cases. We're working to target law … to return to the criminal justice system …
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Chronicle AM — February 10, 2014
Support for Medical Marijuana Amendment in Florida at 57%. A Gravis Marketing poll has support for … Convicted felons and drug offenders would have to pass a drug test before obtaining federal or state assistance under a bill introduced in the state …
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