Voting Behind Bars
Series: Incarcerated Youth Speak Out
From: Blunt Youth Radio Project
Length: 00:02:28
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Maine is one of the few states that protects the rights of all its citzen to vote - even those who are behind bars. Civic duty and inmate are two terms that don't normally go together, but many of the eighteen-year-old inmates at the Long Creek Youth Development Center (LCYDC) in South Portland, Maine will be voting for the first time this year. This vox-pop asks them why they are or are not voting. Listeners will gain unique access to this rarely heard from group of young voters. This piece originally aired on the Blunt episode, "Law & Order", at WMPG in Portland, ME.
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Review of Voting Behind Bars"Voting Behind Bars" gives insight about people who are out of the mainstream...young people in jail.
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Adrian Boyes
Posted on August 17, 2005 at 03:35 PM | Permalink
Review of Voting Behind Bars
This piece has an interesting subject about people in jail who vote, those who don’t, and those who don’t care about voting. The piece is nicely put together with a variety of opinions and points of view on the subject of voting; some people care about the economy and rights of the public while others only care about the legalization of marijuana. This piece has no intro or outro, thus making it confusing if you did not know what the subject was about. I would have liked to know more about the people who were interviewed and why they care about the issues they do. Voting Behind Bars moves quickly with short snippets of speech, however some music might have made it more interesting. The person doing the interviewing did not seem to care about what they were doing, interviewing in a dead-pan and uninterested voice. Voting on all levels is a topic that is very current and important, especially in the last two elections; I feel that more care and substance should have been added to help the overall flow of the piece.