[buridan]

<”Felons that have paid their debt should have all rights restored.”>

The point seems circular. Isn’t losing rights part of “paying your debt”? If “all rights” have to be restored, shouldn’t released convicts get any fines back — or be removed from sexual offender lists or from limitations on where they live or from exclusions from the practice of law, etc.?

[Theoria]

We have far too many laws as of now. Any FReeper has the chance to a felon at any moment because of how the law works and the overburden of laws in society.

You Commit Three Felonies a Day[FR]

As Criminal Laws Proliferate, More Are Ensnared[FR]

[HiTech RedNeck]

Please note the effect of “felony-flation.” Things have been moved into that category of crime as a politically pandering feelgood measure and little more.