[Matman]

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well i was being nice when i said that, but i'm just as qualified as you when it comes to looking at the facts and the inner workings of the prison system and giving my opinion :yikes:...working at McDonald's doesn't mean you know how to make burgers better than anyone...just means that's what you get paid to do...since you work at corrections facility i'm sure you have unique knowledge and i can respect that, but that doesn't mean i can't learn and find out for myself either....our prison system is a complete mess and needs an overhaul..my whole point in my original message which for whatever reason you don't want to talk about is felons depending on the situation deserve to get back their voting rights once they've left prison....Research shows that 60% of people in state prisons who are serving time for a drug offense have no prior history of violence or any significant selling activity....why once they get out should they lose that right...i didn't say lockdowns happen EASY....i gave situations that could be casue for a lock down and those are some...like i said every prison is different and my tour of one particular facilty...a lockdown did happen b/c of a messy bed....so it can be that EASY....does it happen consistently....no, but it does happen....i didn't have to work there to know that....street gangs are more a problem for their society when they re-enter it than they are national threat to U.S. security...like i said before they are a threat to whatever neighborhood they go back too but that's more of indictment of the whole entire prison system in general...as for islam...the religion itself can be a message of peace or a destructive weapon of hate. Clearly the peaceful part is better when dealing with inmates..Overall, the total extent of the infiltration of the prison systems remains unknown..obviousy there is recruiting go on, but like i said before there is nothing that shows anything that is a threat to the gov't....if this there is a threat to our national security, why has there not been a single successful terror attack been carried out since 9/11? Furthermore, why is it that the ten Muslim clerics of the BoP, products of the ISNA – an organization allegedly linked to extremism and terrorism - were cleared of terrorist ties and billed as moderate Muslims.....did the FBI screw that up? maybe? my whole point to begin with was voting rights depending on the crime and futhermore you can't deny someone the right to vote b/c of their religion...a christion felon and a muslim felon deserve the same right if they are allowed to vote...

The guy that makes hamburgers at McDonalds might not make the best hamburger but he still knows more about making hamburgers than the guy who just read an article about it. So tell me why you think they deserve their right to vote. I mean you keep saying they should have it back..Why? What benifit would it serve.
Also you are correct about street gangs. However you are looking at it in the present without any reguards to what can happen. When we put terrorist inmates in with the gangs. They develop access to a very complicated network right here in the US.