While states in recent years have moved away from Jim Crow-era policies, several still make it difficult for people leaving prison to regain the right to vote When a US federal appeals court ...

Former felony offenders most likely will face significant hurdles to a successful reentry to life outside of prison ... rights would favor Democrats and that voting should be reserved for those ...

A significant expansion of voting rights in Mississippi was put in doubt Thursday when a federal appeals court said it's ...

The United States ... obliges prison authorities to encourage prisoners to assert their voting rights and to facilitate voting procedures. The only prisoners who may not vote are those convicted ...

Since the pandemic struck us ... those prisoners undergoing this type of punishment. The UN defines indefinite and prolonged ...

It means that Minnesotans will be able to vote again upon release from prison ... say the work of educating those impacted about their newly reinstated voting rights is just beginning.

In most states, voting rights are automatically ... and in two states even inmates may vote. But Kentucky requires an act of the governor to restore a felon’s right to vote or hold public ...

Last year voting rights were restored to previous convicts as they are not currently serving a prison sentence. This month, ...

A separate lawsuit used a different argument to challenge Mississippi's prohibition on voting by people with felony convictions — and in 2022, the 5th Circuit ruled against those plaintiffs ...

Throughout Abron Arrington’s decades-long incarceration in Colorado, he often found himself in solitary confinement—not ...

The Aug. 4 ruling held that denying voting rights violated the constitutional ban on cruel and ... Republican nominees ...

The Aug. 4 ruling held that denying voting rights violated the constitutional ... Republican nominees dominate the court, although the majority of those who made the Aug. 4 decision were judges ...