No, duly imprisoned American criminals should not be allowed to vote. Neither should most newly released ones.

My colleague Erin Dunne provides eloquent commentary, and Sen. Bernie Sanders provides inanities, to the contrary. For most people, though, it seems entirely common sense to oppose letting people vote from prison. And their common sense is correct. Lawbreakers, especially violent ones, have transgressed against civil society writ large. They may not forfeit all human rights in doing so, but voting is a forfeitable civic privilege in the same way freedom of movement, gun rights, and freedom of association are denied in prison.