Quote Originally Posted by West Chester View Post
I have often wondered how someone's 2nd amendment can be suspended for getting into legal trouble.

Their 1st amendment is not suspended, their 5th and 6th amendments do not go away.
My main project for one college class I choose to do this semester is about the negative efects of the stygma and labeling of 'free' persons that were once incarcerated. I'll try to concentrate my efforts on the rights aspects that are taken away. From me early research, you even have some states not allowing voting rights for ex-felons. If these former felons are supposedly good enough to be released back into society, they should have a blank slate and the temporary restrictions of their rights while incarcerated fully restored. This is not to say I do nto see major problems with the way our current criminal justice system sentences, punishes, and/or rehabilitates current prisoners. All of the latter which would need corrected first before any type of 'blank slate' given to former convicts.