Alameda, CA (Prism)

Many incarcerated people feel disillusioned by the American political system, but you have to understand it's not that we don't care. We have been told we don't have the right to care

What does voting mean to you? This may seem like an easy enough question to answer, but for some of us, it's not so simple.

It goes without saying that felony disenfranchisement laws make many Americans ineligible to vote, but across the U.S., there's also a hodgepodge of laws dictating whether incarcerated people can cast a ballot -- and this includes more than 400,000 "legally innocent" people held in jails who are eligible to vote but effectively barred from exercising the right.

Many of us in prison feel that even if we could cast a ballot, our votes wouldn't mean anything. This is

See Full Page