Locked Out 2022: Estimates of People Denied Voting Rights

Second Chance Month
April 2023

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Collateral Consequences

Locked Out 2022: Estimates of People Denied Voting Rights

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According to this report from The Sentencing Project, laws in 48 states ban people with felony convictions from voting. The report shows that, in 2022, an estimated 4.6 million Americans, representing 2 percent of the voting-age population, will be ineligible to vote due to these laws or policies, many of which date back to the post-Reconstruction era. 

This 2022 report updates and expands upon 20 years of The Sentencing Project's work chronicling the scope and distribution of felony disenfranchisement in the United States. As in 2020, the report presents national and state estimates of the number and percentage of people disenfranchised due to felony convictions, as well as the number and percentage of the Black and Latinx populations impacted.

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