Keeping the poor from the polls.

....about his own state shipping 20-25% of their prisoners to private prisons down south.

to be allowed to vote as long as they aren't murderers, rapests, child molesters, and people who scam people out of their money. Oh yeah, people have been charged with animal abuse as they are much more likely to do the same to humans if they have not done so already.

sure but I know damn well if a rapist or child molester got to vote they would vote for making sentences for those crimes much more lenient. I see Devos type of laws coming in to favor the rapist and child molester. I see all of those people we have been fighting to have to pay for stealing thousands and millions getting off easy ( think trumps just put in jail for not long enough old administration guys.)

People who do small time robbery usually do it because of their living situation and lack of finances and I think I could handle them getting to vote as they would more likely vote to better the help to get trained for work and/or get other needed help. I think people who had been arrested for drug use would be more likely to vote for laws that would help them recover and improve their life. I think even though someone might have died that someone who was driving intoxicated should be allowed to vote as they would more than likely vote for issues to offer people help with their problem with intoxication of whatever drug it was that caused them to do that. It might had been a stupid decision but the result was unintentional. Perhaps if a person has commited a violent crime but due to a drug problem and had never done so while not on drugs then getting them help and they would tend to vote for programs that help people.

Maybe I am wrong, maybe I am right, and maybe I am both but for some people they would vote against what we need to help others and each other.

I guess it would have to go on the particular circumstances of the fraud. This particular issue is not as easy as it may seem.

That being said, I can't say I'm too wild about the idea of murderers and child molesters being allowed to vote.

the prisoners humanity so much as our own.

That's what shapes our society and prisoners; are still inextricably tied to us, even those that we would like to forget tucked away in solitary confinement.

A prisoner doesn't enjoy 100% free will--s/he is at the mercy of those in charge. I can imagine scenarios in which they're told to vote this or that way to get a decent dinner or to avoid solitary confinement.

Or, maybe it would just be North Carolina style fraud where ballots are filled out on behalf of the prisoners without their knowledge.

Unless outside parties are allowed to come in and guarantee that the process is fair, I don't think it's a good idea. It could easily turn into another GOP fraud operation.

prisoners are actually allowed in televised debates.

Can you imagine that!

I think it is pretty simply. They should have to register using the address of the City Council or something similar in the precinct they lived when they were were arrested. They should receive an absentee ballot from that precinct.