This action is obviously a lighting rod for dissension with all of us, I was thinking, is there any felony conviction that we would consider making a persons voting rights whole after they have served their sentence?
@GtHawk If not,there should be.
Until recent decades,it was common in this country for prisoners to serve their entire sentences before being released from prison,and when they were released,their guns were handed back to them,along with their rights to vote.
Of course,back then nobody got a 50 year sentence for bankrobbing. You got maybe 10 years and served your entire 10 years before being released. If you murdered somebody during the robbery,you didn't have to worry about a long jail sentence because they would just hang you and be done with it.
Somehow we developed the insane system used today,where people are given insane sentences to serve,with the judge,jury,and everybody else in the country know they will only serve a fraction of that time before being released on parole.
And of course,you will never live long enough to be released from parole,and while on parole it is damn near impossible to find a decent job because you are required to tell your employer you are on parole. Which means most people won't even hire you. Which,in turn means that you are going to go back to crime to earn money,which means you will be back in prison for a new conviction before your probation ever runs out
Which means,no matter how determined you are to change your life once you are released,you have no chance at all of living a normal life unless you have family that will hire you. Most criminals don't have this,so most criminals are arrested and put into prison again.
In other words,it has evolved into being a situation where the only people that "win" in the criminal justice system these days are the lawyers,the judges,the friends of the politicians that own today's prisons,the prison guards,and the politicians. They benefit because they have created a "perpetual motion criminal machine" that guarantees they will never be out of work.
Hell,criminals are an ASSET in their eyes.
Meanwhile,crime continues to soar,and so do the retirement programs for everyone involved in the criminal justice machine.
