Prisoners should be allowed to vote

The United States of America has been fighting all through history for individual rights and freedoms, ever since 1792 when Kentucky was the 1st state in the US to ban felons from voting. Now, the only two states that a single can vote even though in prison are Maine and Vermont.

1 of the most controversial topics has been the appropriate to vote. Every single citizen of the US deserves the correct to vote, and it must not be some thing that has the capacity to be taken away. Prisoners deserve the proper to vote because it is an person correct, it could assist them re-enter society, and could influence the election.

Every single prisoner deserves the correct to vote since it is an person proper. Our founding fathers decided that we ought to have the appropriate to vote, even if you are a prisoner. If one does not have the correct to vote than it is going against the eighth amendment, which is having fair and not cruel punishments.

It is cruel to not have the proper to vote just because you are in prison, even if you are a citizen you are not permitted to vote in prison. Not only is voting a civil appropriate, not voting is a civil death which the government has been trying to stray away from the previous couple of decades. Prisoners should be allowed to vote to express their political views and have rights to the first amendment, freedom of speech. For over 30 years, the government has been wanting to give prisoners much better living space and more rights they can have inside the prison that they did not have previously. An instance of that is when 13 states let ex-felons to vote right after their sentences ended, and they went by means of a procedure to show that they are sane and have the ability to consider proper.

According to Martin Luther King Jr. “No nation can long continue to flourish or to find its way to a greater society even though it makes it possible for any one particular of its citizens to be denied the right to participate in the most basic of all privileges of democracy- the proper to vote.” This is a quote that MLK stated when he was fighting for equal rights with slavery. You can examine it to present days and how he thinks that each and every citizen need to deserve the right to vote. Just simply because they have commited a crime does not imply they need to have the proper of voting taken away from them.