formerly incarcerated people

Crossposted from Colorlines. A little over a week after the presidential election has ended, many voting rights watchers are reflecting on all that we learned through this year’s campaigns: what went right, what went wrong, and the unresolved challenges that remain ahead. [...Read more]

On the news tonight they’ll be talking about undecided voters and swing states, and who the voters choose: Obama or Romney. What they probably won’t be talking about is those who didn’t vote, not because they’re lazy or ignorant or anti-American, but because it’s against the law. [...Read more]

Crossposted from Justice Roars.  This profile comes from VOTE (Voice Of The Ex-offender) in New Orleans. Eugene Dean has been with VOTE from the very beginning, when the organization sprang from an effort of incarcerated men within Ango [...Read more]

By Parnell Herbert, orginially posted on Justice Roars.  While sitting with Norris Henderson upstairs at the RAE House, I couldn’t help but mar [...Read more]

The night Troy Davis died, I stood in front of the Louisiana Supreme Court building with 100 other people, including my 10-year-old son, praying that the higher court would do the right thing and grant him a stay of execution.  As I left the vigil to attend a meeting with a group of formerly incarcerated persons, I remembered the first vigil I attended in New Orleans, in April of 1997, for the execution of John Ashley Brown.&n [...Read more]