The American criminal legal system is an important site of political socialization: scholars
have shown that criminal legal contact reduces turnout and that criminalization pushes …

US racialized punishment practices have long harmed communities of color in sundry ways,
including access to democratic processes. Synthesizing scholarship on punishment and …

Losing the right to vote is one of many collateral consequences of a criminal conviction in
the United States. US disenfranchisement laws exclude millions of citizens from participating …

Abstract The United States has the highest prison population rate in the world, and
approximately half of all people incarcerated in the United States are parents to children …

People with past criminal convictions register and vote at very low rates and are difficult to
contact for mobilization efforts: they are mobile, hard to find, and often skeptical of politics …

Abstract In 2019, New Jersey expanded access to the franchise for people with criminal
convictions. In this study, we partnered with New Jersey Institute for Social Justice (NJISJ) to …

In 2022, the American Medical Association declared voting a social determinant of health
(Bajaj, 2022). Communities that vote in higher rates are better off in numerous and important …