In Durham, Louisville, and St. Louis it was shown that people of African-American descent had to spend more time in jail than other groups of people who had committed the same crime but were not of African-American descent. If people cannot vote after they get released from jail, it would mean that people of African-American descent would have lower voting participation. This would violate the fifteenth amendment, that made it that way any male can vote, no matter the
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