Restoring voting rights for people with felony convictions can improve public safety, report finds

After Akeem Simms spent 11 months and his 30th birthday in a Pennsylvania correctional facility for a felony conviction for drug possession with the intent to deliver, the Philadelphia resident said voting was the last thing he was concerned about upon his 2007 release.

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