Arizona Felons don't pursue Voting Rights.

               In Arizona there was a report that many convicted felons who returned to the civilian populace rarely pursue gaining their Constitutional Rights. In Arizona also first time offenders who pay restitution and fines at the end of their mandatory sentences automatically receive their all their rights but the 2nd Amendment. To receive their gun rights they need to petition the sentencing judge with whom imposed the incarceration sentence. And even then depending on the nature of the crime or crimes committed will determine whether that judge will restore all rights including 2nd amendment.
               This has been a controversial subject for those who live abiding by the law day in and day out. Many believe that felons should not get the opportunity to vote again as a permanent penalty for committing any crime. And it is said it rewards the felon and negates the punishment. But they don't realize that a felon , even when incarcerated still maintains civil rights. This takes us to the scholarship level and debate whether inmates incarcerated deserve those civil rights when they abused or took those fundamental rights from their victims. In some instances you would believe that those rights were fortified also. But everyone is human and my two cents is that we cannot allow our institutions become vast wastelands of human right abuses. Everyday there is already many unreported circumstances that never see the light of day.
                Our Prison Complex is a mecca for drugs , violence , sexual abuse , mental abuse in the likes many those outside either deny acknowledging or utterly ignore all together. It is a world and society with its own rules to begin with. Those who have been forced to pay their debt to society and those who guard those forced to be there are all part of a underworld , a Dark World.
                 And from this Incarcerated world someone who returns to society literally receives a culture shock. Especially those who served long sentences for their crimes. And they feel that they have been tossed away already so reintegration to the real world is like a mute legal point. Some felons feel society didn't care or listen then and why bother attempt to be a part now. The system automatically disenfranchises them in the beginning and some felons rather leave it that way.
                In Maricopa County , Arizona 70% ( American Probation and Parole Assoc ) https://www.ncjrs.gov/App/Publications/abstract.aspx?ID=162397 of the population is not allowed to vote and on Lifetime Probation or Parole. Very staggering. And many other city populations are the same. For being a military man you would ask what does that have to do with anything? Well if you want to control the vote and get what you want politically or in the way of policy one way to achieve this is by disenfranchising a large portion of the population to ensure a " easy win ".
                I'm sure this will always be a ongoing subject of discussion. And policy and the Standard Operation Procedure of the legal system here in Arizona is likely not subject to change.