Conned: How Millions Went to Prison, Lost the Vote, and Helped Send George W. Bush to the White House

The criminal disenfranchisement that affects millions of American citizens.

"It seems when you're convicted of a felony, the scarlet letter is there. You take it everywhere with you."—Jamaica S., a twenty-five-year-old on probation in Tennessee who lost her right to vote

More than four million Americans, mainly poor, black, and Latino, have lost the right to vote. In some states, as many as a third of all African American men cannot take part in the most basic right of a democracy. The reason...