Even very short jail sentences drive people away from voting
New research offers fresh evidence of the criminal justice system’s effects on politics.
"The racial discrepancy in the findings was striking: White people sent to jail voted a bit less often, but black people turned dramatically away from voting. Jail time reduced their voting participation rates from roughly 26 percent to 13 percent. (And this wasn’t because people were still behind bars on Election Day — these were all post-release effects.)"
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