Poll after poll asking felons who are interested in voting who they plan to vote for shows the opposite. The vast majority of ex-felons who are engaged politically are hardcore Democrats. It may have something to do with the fact that a large portion of them are young black males.
Yeah, these people are mostly not White and therefore will mostly vote rat. For a knife’s edge state like FL this is horrendous.
Robert Downney Jr. came out of prison more conservative, but he was an upper class White man.
Most young Black men probably come out of prison worse, full of hate for the White men that stuck him in there in the first place. An aside but I’m not keen on the idea of prison itself as a punishment for exactly that reason, unless it’s for life (and it’s a rare bird that would deserve life and not just deserve death, mostly crazy people). Just lock em up is a lazy solution. They are exposed to gangs, non-violent felons may be sexually assaulted, drugs are prevalent, dudes have lots of time to work out and therefore become more dangerous.
If prisons were actual reformatories and not warehouses...
At the very least we need to clean them up, eliminate drugs, and that means eliminating corrupt unionized guards who may be little better than the prisoners themselves, eliminate homosexual rape by any means necessary (camera’s in every cell?). Mandate participation in reforming activities, bread and water and solitary if they refuse.