Prisoner Voting Rights in Canada: Rejecting the Notion of Temporary Outcasts
Christopher Mela and Teresa Miller, eds, Civil Penalties, Social Consequences (New York, Routledge, 2005), ch. 14.
10 Pages Posted: 28 Aug 2014
Date Written: January 1, 2005
Abstract
This book chapter examines a successful prisoner voting rights case in Canada and suggests that the opposition in the U.S. to postincarceration legal, social, and economic consequences of criminal conviction would benefit from attention to the way the continued construction of prisoners as temporary outcasts resonates positively in society, assisting to legitimate the myriad penalties and consequences imposed on prisoners' release.
Keywords: prison, prisoners' rights, voting rights, punitiveness
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