Felon Disenfranchisement within the state of Alabama

I will be discussing the link between felon disenfranchisement within the state of Alabama and slavery and how it leads to oppressive practices against individuals within the state. The United States boasts a large percentage of all of the incarcerated people, as while the country "made up roughly 4 percent of the world's population, [the US} had 20 percent of the world's prisoners" (Jean Chung, 2018; as cited in Mate, 2022, p. 968). With the country's large population of criminal offenders, several of these individuals within Alabama are not allowed to vote due to the crimes that they commit. The case of Alabama represents an example of how felon disenfranchisement practices links back to the oppression of formerly enslaved people within the state, leading to current-day oppressive practices against felons within the system through taking away one's right to vote.