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| Debate rages on inmates' right to vote |
| By Montgomery Advertiser |
| Published: 09/29/2008 |
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ALABAMA - Many prisoners in Alabama jails have the right to vote, but a Democratic activist's efforts to register them and supply them with absentee ballots halted when the chair of the state Republican Party complained. The Rev. Kenneth Glasgow, an advocate for inmate and felon voting rights and executive director of The Ordinary People Society, was going into state prisons and registering inmates, particularly those convicted of drug possession. Rep. Mike Hubbard, R-Auburn, wrote a letter of complaint to Corrections Commissioner Richard Allen, who stopped the effort in its tracks. Allen, who was appointed by Republican Gov. Bob Riley, declined to be interviewed. He responded to Hubbard in a letter that referred to a 2005 opinion issued by Attorney General Troy King regarding registering felons to vote. Read more. If link has expired, check the website of the article's original news source. |
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