Sentence examples for incarcerated felon from inspiring English sources

The last time a high-rolling Maryland lobbyist was convicted of corrupt behavior, the newly incarcerated felon boldly continued to enlist clients and lobby the Statehouse from a jailhouse pay phone.

"With his sentence today, Villanueva Madrid completes his descent from elected government official to corrupted official to incarcerated felon," said Preet Bharara, the United States attorney in Manhattan.

In all states but Maine and Vermont, currently incarcerated felons are not allowed to vote.

When it passed the Voting Rights Act, the majority said, Congress did not intend to prohibit states from disenfranchising incarcerated felons.

The Acting Solicitor General suggested that the Court should not take Simmons, for several reasons--one of which was because the Supreme Court would have the chance to take up the issue of whether laws disenfranchising incarcerated felons can violate the Voting Rights Act in Farrakhan, which the SG apparently thinks is a better case for review because of its "more developed record".

And to this audience of 16- to 21-year-olds incarcerated as convicted felons or awaiting trial, he brought a chance to dream.

Even with the change, Massachusetts remains one of just 13 jurisdictions that disenfranchise felons while they are incarcerated but not after they are freed.

John Taht Washington, D.C. Danielle Allen's heart-achingly beautiful history of her cousin — who became a convicted felon at the age of fifteen, was incarcerated for eleven years, and was killed soon after his release — searches for explanations ("American Inferno," July 24th).

State law says felons are permitted to vote provided they are not incarcerated.

Scalia's move is a little like taking a list of people who are incarcerated — defendants awaiting trial, immigrants about to be deported, those serving misdemeanor sentences, and convicted felons — and saying "hereinafter felons".

Forty-eight states don't allow people with felony convictions to vote while they are incarcerated, but states have widely different policies on when and how ex-felons can get back their right to vote.