The Democracy Behind Bars Coalition (DBBC) is a Massachusetts-based coalition of advocacy organizations, community groups, direct service providers, religious organizations, and incarcerated and formerly incarcerated individuals working to ensure that democracy does not stop at prisons and jails. The coalition advocates for protecting and expanding voting rights for incarcerated people, implementing jail-based voting access, restoring voting rights to people with felony convictions, and ending prison gerrymandering.
Voting rights restoration for incarcerated and formerly incarcerated individuals, jail-based voting access, repeal of felony disenfranchisement provisions, prison gerrymandering reform, and broader criminal justice and racial equity reforms
Grant funding and support from member organizations and philanthropic partners
African American Coalition Committee, Emancipation Initiative, Families for Justice as Healing, National Council for Incarcerated and Formerly Incarcerated Women and Girls – MA, Healing Our Lands Inc., ACLU of Massachusetts, Prisoners Legal Services, Common Cause Massachusetts, MassVOTE, Massachusetts Voter Table, The Sentencing Project
Non-profit coalition
