[DBlack]

Every citizen should have voting rights as long as they are not incarcerated, or serving any part of their sentence (probation or parole).

By stripping those that have paid their debt to society, you have severely hindered any chance of reform advantageous to those still under the boot of the justice system; If there is abuse or rights violations in the prison systems, who better to lead the fight in brining about some positive change than those who endured it, paid their debt, and move on to be productive citizens and activists in society?

The system is basically designed to albeit remove incarcerated or convicted citizens from the mainstream avenues of productive citizenry. And that is the bigger crime here.