disenfranchisement

  • Nov 23, 2003

    The Last Disenfranchised Class

    It was 1986, and Jan Warren knew she had to do something to change her life. She wanted to get home to California where her father had just died and left her a produce business. But Warren, 35, was stuck on the East Coast with no money, in a dead-end relationship and pregnant. Desperate, she made a mistake: She agreed to sell cocaine for her cousin.

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  • Nov 05, 2003

    Also Turned Away

    Forty-four states in the United States today bar people with mental illnesses from voting. Apart from laws affecting felons, these are the last overt voting restrictions on the books for citizens over 18.

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  • Nov 02, 2003

    Whose Vote Counts?

    Millions of Americans are routinely stymied when attempting the most basic right of our democracy - casting a vote. In the radio documentary "Whose Vote Counts?," CIR associate reporter Rebecca Perl investigates how citizens are legally denied or left out of the voting process.

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