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Africana Criminal Justice Project seeks to compliment the important work a growing community of activists, scholars, and practitioners is undertaking to steer this nation off its destructive course of mass imprisonment, and to address the collateral damages resulting from decades of commitment to this policy. The following websites offer some additional information and resources related to several of these initiatives:
THE ADVANCEMENT PROJECT
Re-enfranchisement!
A Guide for Individual Restoration of Voting Rights in States
that Permanently Disenfranchise Former Felons (Taifa
2002)
America’s Modern Poll Tax: How Structural Disenfranchisement
Erodes Democracy (Donziger 2001)
THE BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE
Democracy Program: Voting and Representation
Johnson v. Bush Complaint
Media/Press Release links
BUILDING BLOCKS FOR YOUTH
CRITICAL RESISTANCE
DEMOS
Restoring Voting Rights to Citizens with Felony Convictions
ELLA BAKER CENTER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS
EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE OF ALABAMA
NATIONAL COALITION TO ABOLISH THE DEATH PENALTY
NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUCATIONAL
FUND
OPEN SOCIETY
INSTITUTE – CRIMINAL JUSTICE INITIATIVEMass
Imprisonment and the Disappearing Voters Forum (2002,
October 30)
PRISON ACTIVIST RESOURCE CENTER
PRISON MORATORIUM PROJECTJustice 4 Youth Coalition
THE PRISON POLICY INITIATIVE
PRISON SUCKS (Comprehensive Information Resource)
Prison Sucks Research Links
Prison Sucks Fact Sheets
Prison Sucks Links
THE SENTENCING PROJECT
Losing the Vote: The Impact of Felony Disenfranchisement Laws in the United States (Fellner and Mauer 1998)
Regaining the
Vote: An Assessment of Activity Relating to Felony Disenfranchisement
Laws (Allard and Mauer 2000)
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