WGBH Boston Public Radio How Massachusetts Prisoners (Recently) Lost the Right To Vote The modern era for voting rights for prisoners in Massachusetts started in 1973, “when some prisoner rights activists basically noticed that they had a right to vote and began a registration drive in MCI-Concord,” said WGBH Legal Analyst Daniel Medwed, a professor of law and justice at Northeastern University.
WGBH Boston Public Radio How Massachusetts Prisoners (Recently) Lost the Right To Vote The modern era for voting rights for prisoners in Massachusetts started in 1973, “when some prisoner rights activists basically noticed that they had a right to vote and began a registration drive in MCI-Concord,” said WGBH Legal Analyst Daniel Medwed, a professor of law and justice at Northeastern University.