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Nearly six million people are denied the right to vote in the United States because of laws that prohibit people with felony convictions from voting. In the state of New York, 89 percent of those who cannot vote due to felon disenfranchisement are African American. Tune in to the Prison Voices Project to hear Dr. Alice Green, Executive Director of the Center for Law and Justice in Albany, explain the historic roots of felon disenfranchisement and the current movement for universal suffrage. The show also includes Jazz Hayden of New York City's Riverside Church's Ministry to End the New Jim Crow; Bernard Byran, President of the Albany branch of the NAACP and Maurice Mitchell of the New York Civic Engagement table. six million people are denied the right to vote in the United States because of laws that prohibit people with felony convictions from voting. In the state of New York, 89 percent of those who cannot vote due to felon disenfranchisement are African American.