{"id":8452,"date":"2018-06-28T14:18:23","date_gmt":"2018-06-28T18:18:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/press-releases\/new-report-examines-the-business-of-mass-incarceration-the-damage-it-does-to-democracy\/"},"modified":"2018-06-28T14:18:23","modified_gmt":"2018-06-28T18:18:23","slug":"new-report-examines-the-business-of-mass-incarceration-the-damage-it-does-to-democracy","status":"publish","type":"press","link":"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/ru\/press\/new-report-examines-the-business-of-mass-incarceration-the-damage-it-does-to-democracy\/","title":{"rendered":"New Report Examines the Business of Mass Incarceration & the Damage it Does to Democracy"},"template":"","class_list":["post-8452","press","type-press","status-publish","hentry","press_type-press-release"],"acf":{"details":{"summary":"Today, Common Cause issued a new report examining how corrections industry influence, felony disenfranchisement and prison gerrymandering fuel mass incarceration and undermine democracy. Democracy Behind Bars looks at our broken criminal justice system and how it is manipulated for the benefit and profit of the prison industry. The report goes on to examine the work going on in the states to restore voting rights to citizens who have served their time and to curb mass criminalization and incarceration. ","featured_image":"","press_type":236,"authors":["{\"site_id\":\"1\",\"post_type\":\"person\",\"post_id\":7855}"],"related_issues":[103,137,139,169,2051,2066,2082],"related_work":false,"location":46},"sidebar":{"helper_enable_sidebar":false,"helper_media_contact":{"heading":"Media Contact","manually_enter_person":false,"person":null,"name":"","role":"","phone":"","email":""},"helper_links_downloads":{"heading":"Links & Downloads","links":null}},"page_layout":[{"acf_fc_layout":"layout_wysiwyg","_acfe_flexible_toggle":null,"component_wysiwyg":{"content":"Today, Common Cause issued a new report examining how corrections industry influence, felony disenfranchisement and prison gerrymandering fuel mass incarceration and undermine democracy. \u0414\u0435\u043c\u043e\u043a\u0440\u0430\u0442\u0438\u044f \u0437\u0430 \u0440\u0435\u0448\u0435\u0442\u043a\u043e\u0439<\/em><\/strong><\/a> looks at our broken criminal justice system and how it is manipulated for the benefit and profit of the prison industry. The report goes on to examine the work going on in the states to restore voting rights to citizens who have served their time and to curb mass criminalization and incarceration.\r\n\r\n\u201cAmericans expect and deserve a true participatory democracy, but millions of citizens have found themselves stripped of their right to vote even after they have served their sentences,\u201d said \u041a\u0430\u0440\u0435\u043d \u0425\u043e\u0431\u0435\u0440\u0442 \u0424\u043b\u0438\u043d\u043d, \u043f\u0440\u0435\u0437\u0438\u0434\u0435\u043d\u0442 Common Cause<\/strong>. \u201cMass criminalization and incarceration, and those who profit from it, continue to undermine our democracy. But at the state level, voters and legislators are taking the initiative and moving to reform the system and repair the damage it has done to our democracy.\u201d\r\n\r\nA video highlighting the report\u2019s findings is available here<\/a>. As the report emphasizes, the American criminal justice system \u201cis influenced by many of the same political forces that distort and corrupt other areas of government policy and action: the influence of special interest money in elections and lobbying of our elected officials, partisan disputes over voting rights and redistricting, abuses of power, and ethical breaches.\u201d\r\n\r\n\u201cMass incarceration has risen to levels that break our democracy,\u201d said Aleks Kajstura, Legal Director, Prison Policy Initiative<\/strong>. \u201cThe report rightly highlights issues such as prison gerrymandering - the practice of counting incarcerated people at the location of the prison rather than at home for redistricting. This means that representation is granted based on the size of the prisons rather than the number of actual residents. Through prison gerrymandering, mass incarceration creates pervasive vote dilution that extends to cover most Americans.\u201d\r\n\r\n\u201cWith the highest incarceration rate of any country in the world, the mass criminalization of our citizens is a defining issue of our time,\u201d said Keshia Morris, Common Cause Census & Mass Incarceration Project Manager<\/strong>. \u201cOne in thirty-five adults in this country have been under correctional supervision, but that number swells exponentially in our nation\u2019s poorest regions and neighborhoods. Prison industry influence, felony disenfranchisement and prison gerrymandering are part of how we got here.\u201d\r\n\r\nOne in thirty-five adults in this country have been under correctional supervision, prison industry influence, felony disenfranchisement and prison gerrymandering are part of how we got here.\r\n\r\nDemocracy Behind Bars examines a variety of factors that contribute to including:\r\n