Title
Incarceration and the Right to Vote: An International Comparative Study
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2022
Description
The Full Citizens Coalition asked me to examine the roots of how this problem arose, why CT voting laws for incarcerated people differ from Maine and Vermont, and how/why the United States has so drastically diverged from other progressive but historically problematic, similar nations. Answering these questions required looking at a wide variety of sources: book chapters, podcasts, websites, state databases for legislative history, videos, news articles, and more (see bibliography for a comprehensive list). Crucially, this research highlights the racial roots of US federal and state visions of what voting rights should be, and the alternatives to that, as modeled throughout other nations.
Recommended Citation
Hersom, Emma, "Incarceration and the Right to Vote: An International Comparative Study" (2022). Community Learning Research Fellows. 4.
https://digitalrepository.trincoll.edu/clrf/4
Comments
Emma Hersom '24; Community partner: Full Citizens Coalition