Largely enshrined after the Civil War, felon disenfranchisement laws outlived their better-known Jim Crow cousins, and even today operate in tandem with the prison-industrial complex to deny Americans of color full access to political life.
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Largely enshrined after the Civil War, felon disenfranchisement laws outlived their better-known Jim Crow cousins, and even today operate in tandem with the prison-industrial complex to deny Americans of color full access to political life.