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Question: If convicted of a drug related felony, what rights would be lost?
Answer: Felony conviction typically results in the loss of such civil rights as the right to vote, the right to hold a public office and the right to possess a firearm. Additionally, our right to travel, freely associate with others or engage in various types of business may be restricted by conviction for a felony crime. While some of these rights may be restored by the Courts after completion of punishment for the crime, some may become permanently lost.
Also, while not exactly civil rights in the true sense of the word, other effects of a felony conviction often include reduced employment availability and credit and housing restrictions, since many employers, lenders and landlords will not accept applicants who have felony convictions on their record.
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On 08/06/08
phil from AZ said:
everyone should check your local laws and federal laws because first time felons can get all of their rights back if you fulfill your debt to society, that means pay your probation fees and fines and do all your jail time and parole and every thing and you get your right to vote back. as for second offense felons i forget the law but im sure it is on the web somewhere. i only know this because i was arrested with 47 doses of lsd
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On 07/28/08
Elisa from MO said:
I was conivicted when I was 18 for selling weed had 3 pounds in my house and a bottle of Zan X.. I was sentenced after I turned 19. I got 5 years supervised probation, 10 shock in the county jail, and 1 year of drug test twice a month, also becoming a SES felon. What I would like to know is How are we suppose to become what you say as normal people if we are felons all of our lives?? Everyone makes mistakes and I never hurt anyone in the making of my crime so why am I being punished so unfairly??? I and others deserve a secound chance in life!
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On 07/18/08
Eligh from CO said:
Unfortunatly i too have been convicted of a felony and everyday is seems as though i can find more and more things i cant legally do. I deserved to be convicted but not what was to come after. I do the right thing, but it still dosnt matter
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On 04/14/08
Dave from MO said:
Funny but nobody mentioned that you can NOT get welfare / food stamps if you have been convicted of a drug related felony. Murderers and white collar felons can though. Guess they don't care how you get back on your feet.
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On 04/08/08
Angela from OK said:
If we can't work, can't find housing can't buy life insurance can't vote, Where are we suspose to live and work how can we change our lives without life resources to better our lively-hood. How do we better ourselves after serving and paying for the crimal mistake and educating ourselves how do we renew our way of living if we are forced into the same lifeless crimal situations. The american perception is, once the time is done, one is free to begin a new life. But the government has told society not to be fair to them no jobs no housing we will still hold them in bondage by refusing true free
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