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Formerly Convicted Persons Deprived of Voting Rights in Florida
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley
11 Nov 2022
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Black Agenda Radio · Formerly Convicted Persons Deprived of Voting Rights in Florida

Patrick Berry is a counsel in the Brennan Center’s Democracy Program, where he focuses on voting rights restoration and promoting fair, diverse, and impartial courts. He joins us from New York to discuss Florida’s prosecution of 30 people with past felony convictions who believed they were eligible to vote.

Florida
voting rights
Black Voter Suppression
voting rights for the formerly convicted

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