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Survey Saturday: Voting Rights for the Formerly Incarcerated

Survey Saturday: Here in California, people who have a felony conviction are only barred from voting if they are still in state prison or on parole.

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More Black Men Are in Prison Today Than Enslaved in 1850

By Dick Price

Dick Price: “More African American men are in prison or jail, on probation or parole than were enslaved in 1850, before the Civil War began,” Michelle Alexander told a standing room only house at the Pasadena Main Library this past Wednesday

Facing the Future as a Media Felon on the Gulf Coast

By Georgianne Nienaber

Georgianne Nienaber: The United States Coast Guard considers me a felon now, because I “willfully” want to obtain more photos like these to show you the utter devastation occurring in Barataria Bay, Louisiana as a result of the BP oil catastrophe.

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