To: State legislators, The United States House of Representatives, and The United States Senate

Every citizen deserves a voice! End prison disenfranchisement

6.1 million Americans nationwide have lost their right to vote because of prison disenfranchisement. Join us in demanding that EVERY American citizen -- including those who are incarcerated -- have the right to vote.

Why is this important?

A true democracy that is of, by, and for the people must extend the right to vote to all its citizens.

But by taking the right to vote away from incarcerated people, we’ve created a class of people who are subject to the laws of this country -- but have no say in how they're governed.

Then, when district lines are drawn, many states count incarcerated people as residents of the community where the prison is -- violating the principle of one person, one vote. That unfairly skews political representation towards the rural, whiter communities where prisons get built.

Our mass incarceration system is silencing the voices and communities most impacted by it. And that’s by design -- dating back to the Jim Crow era, felony disenfranchisement laws have been used to attack Black people’s political power.

Join us in calling on state and federal officials to end prison disenfranchisement once and for all.