If a felon has served all his time, is his debt to society not paid?
In many states, a felon who has paid his debt can petition the governor to have the right to vote restored.
This makes sense to me.
NO! The Pharisee’s said so!/s
The thing is that these morons don’t realize that EVERY person commits on average no less than 3 felonies a day. We have the largest prison population in the entire world (by many times), and more than 1% of our population is in a prison at any given moment. Nearly 1/2 of all kids are arrested/detained before they reach adulthood. No one is safe, yet people are stupid enough to think that the object is not to remove ALL rights from EVERYONE.
Stop trying to take GOD given rights from people, even if they commit a crime. This infatuation with locking people up is sick and demented. I dare say 99% of prisoners have no business being in prison, and certainly not at the expense of tens of thousands of dollars a year. There are many forms of discipline that modify society and individuals behaviors. Prison isn’t one of them. Even for theft. It’s like saying, “That man stole 5,000 from you, now you get to pay $20,000 over the next several years to house feed, and clothe him, and he’ll have no means to pay you back.” I’d rather have him caned and put back to work than pay 5x, 10x, 20x the amount to keep myself “Safe.”
That is what I am thinking too. I don't think the Constitution has much to say about this so I guess it would be up to the states for local/state elections and Congress for federal election. I have not given the issues much thought so there might be good arguments against Santorun here.
Not into bashing Santorum but I have serious problems with singling out manufacturing for a 0 tax rate, I thought that law was suppose to apply equaling for all? A 0 tax rate for one seems like big government social engineering to me.
Exactly. ALL of his rights should be returned once the sentance is served. This would include 2nd amendment rights as well. Otherwise, you end up with a lesser class of "citizen".
I'm disappointed that so many freepers oppose this. There are far too many things in modern America that would make one a 'felon'.