Top Trends in State Criminal Justice Reform, 2018 - SENTENCING REFORM EXPANDING THE VOTE

In recent years a number of states have enacted reforms designed to reduce the scale of incarceration and impact of the collateral consequences of a felony conviction. [...] State policymakers enacted several reforms to Statutory law changes are not automatically retroactive; reduce the number of people in state prison during the legislature still has to authorize retroactivity for a 2018. [...] Making Justice-involved residents now automatically have the progress towards challenging disparities requires right to vote once they complete their prison, probation reliable and consistent data about the racial and or parole sentence; persons convicted of homicide ethnic characteristics of a state’s criminal justice and sex offenses are excluded from the measure. [...] This information is needed to identify the state’s lifetime felony voting ban was among the most factors contributing to disparities in order to develop restrictive in the country, along with Iowa, Kentucky and monitor policy solutions. [...] Legislative reforms included Colorado authorizing persons on parole to pre-register to vote prior to ABOLISHING INVOLUNTARY SLAVERY AND completing their sentence, Illinois allowing jails to SERVITUDE serve as a polling location, Louisiana expanding voting rights to persons on felony probation and parole, and Coloradans approved Amendment A with 65% Washington D.