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Reviews
"Poll Vault"
The Nation
March 30, 2006
By Mark Sorkin
"Nevada Conservatives Against the War on Drugs"
MotherJones
August 11, 2006
"Speakout: Most ex-felons deserve right to vote"
Rocky Mountain News
August 4, 2006
Senior Fellow Sasha Abramsky discusses how Colorado's Supreme Court ruling denied parolees the right to vote the same week that the Human Rights Committee of the United Nations issued a highly critical report about how the United States treats prisoners and ex-prisoners.
"Conned by Sasha Abramsky"
Uprising Radio
July 10, 2006
GUEST: Sasha Abramsky, author of "Conned," Senior Fellow for Democracy at the public policy organization Demos, whose previous book was "Hard Time Blues: How Politics Built a Prison Nation."
"Rights and Wrongs"
The Leonard Lopate Show
June 21, 2006
Barred from Voting Over 4 million Americans--mainly poor, black, and Latino--have lost the right to vote because of felony disenfranchisement laws. In Conned, Sasha Abramsky investigates the impact these laws had on the 2004 Presidential election.
"A conference with ghosts"
San Francisco Bay Guardian
May 30, 2006
In Conned: How Millions Went to Prison, Lost the Vote, and Helped Send George W. Bush to the White House, Sacramento-based investigative journalist Sasha Abramsky documents the way in which the widespread practice of stripping convicted felons of the right to vote has dramatically contracted the country's pool of eligible voters. This, he convincingly argues, has warped the outcome of local, state, and the past two presidential elections in favor of conservatives, whose richer, whiter constituency is, if not less crime-prone, less likely to be vigorously prosecuted than its poorer, darker counterpart.
"Opening Up, Beyond Anger and Shame"
Real Change News
May 19, 2006
Abramsky's quest for his latest book, Conned, was to document the lives and struggles of this nation's most unwanted citizens: the impoverished, adjudicated, imprisoned, and disenfranchised. Finding the statistics and studies to indicate the extent of the problem wasn't a challenge. But getting people to open up about their anger and shame was a hurdle to overcome; opening the doors to real conversation about disenfranchisement involved, by necessity, a willingness to immerse himself in the lives of people unaccustomed to any kind of real interaction with the media.
"Conned"
Mother Jones
May 15, 2006
Due to their past felony convictions, roughly half a million Floridians did not have the right to vote in the 2000 presidential election. If just 1 in 50 of those ex-cons had voted, and if 60 percent of them had voted Democratic, George W. Bush might be nothing more than a retired governor today. This simple calculus inspired Sasha Abramsky to examine the state laws that prevent huge numbers of largely poor and black ex-felons from voting, and which he concludes help Republicans keep winning elections.
"Book Review: Conned by Sasha Abramsky"
Esquire
May 1, 2006
Conned is an alarming look at what the war on crime and war on drugs have wrought, and how the expansion of the prison population changes the meaning of American citizenship.
"Reporting on America's Most Unwanted"
In These Times
April 27, 2006
Abramsky's ability to hone in on undercovered, emerging social trends has been apparent since he burst onto the American journalism scene. His first major exposé on the American prison system was published in The Atlantic Monthly when British-born Abramsky was just 26. For that piece, he and noted photographer Andrew Lichtenstein waded into a world that few outsiders wanted to experience: sprawling prison yards, maximum-security lock-ups and privately-run companies behind prison walls--a system of mass incarceration that, as Abramsky correctly surmised, was in the process of becoming a full-fledged "prison industrial complex."
"Democracy Behind Bars"
AlterNet
April 25, 2006
In his new book, "Conned: How Millions of Americans Went to Prison, Lost the Vote, and Helped Send George W. Bush to the White House," award-winning journalist Sasha Abramsky takes us on a journey across the nation, documenting through personal interviews of people in prison, former prisoners, state legislators and advocates how felon disfranchisement laws fundamentally undermine America's democratic ideals.
"Excerpt: Conned"
AlterNet
April 25, 2006
In this excerpt from his new book, Sasha Abramsky reveals what really happened during the 2000 Election voter 'purge.'
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