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  • Nov 24, 2003

    Voting Blocks

    In this story for NPR's new Day to Day news program, CIR associate reporter Rebecca Perl examines the state laws that prevent felons and ex-felons from voting in elections, sometimes for life. As a result, nationwide, one in eight black men are barred from voting - in some states it's one in three.

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  • 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 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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