Voting Rights for a Felon Crime has been around in every animal society, specifically humans since the beginning of time. There has always been people who are out there who are trying to con or seek revenge. Societies soon figured out that there needs to be a punishment for these criminals. Thankfully, punishment has changed drastically through the centuries. Humans no longer cut off a limb for stealing or burn people at the stake for witchcraft. Now punishment has turned more into serving time for what you have done. There are other checks like probation, parole, and fines that criminals are expected to carry out and follow through the years. In America, we have this notion that people cannot change and once they become a criminal they will always be one. Because of this, states want to be able to take away more rights of the convicted felon population. Fortunately, as a population we can always evolve and we can start to study the rights of criminals and determine what punishment seems the most logical that doesn’t dehumanize all criminals. We can start by taking a look at where convictions and punishments started, and how people determined who could vote in the …show more content…
Iowa is just now starting to re-debate this issue seven years later. It is important to look at constantly reforming laws and trying to create new ones because society is changing and the rules should change along with it. If we stood by our regular constitution and amendments without adding anything new, we would still have people who had no rights. That is not what America wants to stand for now so it is important that our country keeps transforming with the people that make up the nation. We are a nation that wants to keep growing and conforming to new societies and social norms, but with the growing incarceration rate we may need to start to reconsider who takes up much of our population and let them start to have a