Sentence examples for majority of felons from inspiring English sources

A majority of felons and ex-cons blocked from voting reside in a core of six Southern states -- Alabama, Florida, Kentucky, Mississippi, Tennessee and Virginia -- where more than 3 million people are banned from the rolls.

Because the majority of convicted felons eventually re-enter society.

"It is bit more complex because the majority of Florida ex-felons are white".

The majority of the cases involved convicted felons who said they didn't realize they were no longer allowed to vote.

But a majority of states restore such benefits to drug felons, including food stamps.

It was supposed to focus on dangerous felons, but the heavy majority of those it catches are noncriminals or minor offenders — more than 30 percent have no convictions for anything.

Most states limit the voting rights of felons and ex-felons.

Federal law bars felons from purchasing and possessing firearms, yet every year thousands of felons across the country have those rights reinstated, often with little or no review.

We're creating a whole new class of felons here.

Its prisons are so overcrowded that it has to turn tens of thousands of felons loose.

A study of felon voting patterns (pdf) from 1972 to 2000 found on average 30% of felons and ex-felons would vote if given the chance, and about three out of four would vote for the Democratic nominee for president.