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Images/Imageries. Snapshots and visualizations. I recall a number of them as pre- lude to these thoughts on the effects of mass incarceration on the civic life of Latino communities across this country:
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Cheo seemingly ignores the plea of voter registration volunteers on the sidewalk outside the Melrose Job Center in the Bronx. Actually, he is circling to tell the young woman in a quiet moment that it is not that he does not care about politics; it is that he cannot vote because of a drug conviction in his past. He is mistaken, she assures him. And so begins another attempt to undo decades of misinformation about who is entitled to exercise what we assumed was a basic citizenship right—the right to vote.
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Cartagena, J. (2009). Lost Votes, Lost Bodies, Lost Jobs. In: Oboler, S. (eds) Behind Bars. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230101470_7
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