The US is one of few Western democracies with felony disenfranchisement laws. Each American state has its own rules, but almost all ban prisoners from voting. That ban sometimes extends to when incarcerated individuals have served their time and are out of prison. The World’s Shirin Jaafari looked into how some other democracies have debated and resolved this issue.
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