PPro Supports SPEAR’s Voting Rights Campaign

Please join Princeton University’s Students for Prison Education and Reform (SPEAR) in their current Voting Rights Campaign by phone banking key New Jersey legislators in early May to push for pending legislation that would allow all formerly and currently-incarcerated individuals in NJ the right to vote, even if on probation or parole. This simultaneous criminal justice and voting rights reform initiative would put NJ in the forefront along with a few other states on extending voting rights to citizens regardless of their criminal records, and also serves to recognize that state laws that disenfranchise such citizens from voting are to a significant extent rooted in racism. A sample script, as well as links to the information on two identical bills (one in Senate, the other in the General Assembly), can be found here.