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The US is nuts. You can vote from prison in Canada
Same thing in the Netherlands. You can have someone vote for you in your stead.
I believe the same is true in Vermont and Maine, but 2 out of 50 isn't great.
If you can take away the right to vote as punishment for a crime, and make anything a crime, then you can take away anyone's right to vote. This reinforces the concept of the 'precariat'.
Also the same in Australia. In fact, itβs required by law for them to vote (as it is for all eligible voters)
Although not in the EU anymore, I think the UK has managed to find some way of preventing prisoners from voting across the years.
But if that were really true why ever release them at all? Why not go the full China approach with capital punishment and organ donation?
I think it's just a legacy from older laws, especially against gangs in smaller communities, etc.
Tbf china and north korea are not as bad as the media portrays them as
Prison camp = prison
Slave labour = prison labour
Both disproportionately imprison and kill minorities, but isn't that also what the US does
Given the rights prisoners have in many other countries, it might be better to say that things are just as bad in the US as the media paints other countries.
Because, uh, prison labour is pretty fucking awful, especially when considering that y'all gots them private prisons down there.
I'm Finnish, so I know the situation in the US is bad But yeah media likes to hide the country's problems in most countries