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Former inmate working to help current inmates cast votes
By montgomeryadvertiser.com- Kelsey Davis
Published: 10/24/2016

When Kenneth Glasgow got his voting rights restored after 14 years of incarceration, he tied a string to his voter registration card and wore it around his neck for months.

“Everybody said, ‘Why do you have yourself tagged like that? You’re not a prisoner anymore,’” he recalled. “I said, ‘ No, I’m not a prisoner no more. This proves I’m a citizen.’”

That notion of equating voting rights to citizenship came to him through prayer and study, he said, while he was still in prison.

“Once a person gets a felony conviction, they can’t get a job. They can’t get housing, they can’t get education, they can’t get their lives back together. But if you give a person their voting right, then they are declared and decreed a citizen of the United States,” Glasgow said. “It’ll start making them act like a citizen, start making them want to be a better citizen, and start making them become productive as a citizen.”

When he was released in 2001, Glasgow almost immediately started visiting inmates to talk to them about becoming civically engaged once they re-enter society.

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