Utah is a standout among red states for its voting laws allowing citizens who are convicted of felonies to vote after being ...

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 ...

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 ...

Why it matters: The tussle is largely partisan, with most Republicans opposing felons voting and Democrats — including those ... rights for citizens 18 and older, including felons still in prison.

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 ...

The state already allows people held in county jails to register and vote, but people serving time in prisons do not have the same rights. Rep. La Shawn Ford (D-Chicago) believes every American ...

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.

As the matter stands right now, the jail is estimated to cost around $300 million, Commissioners Nelson Peters and Richard ...

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 ...

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

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

Gov. Kathleen C. Hochul signed a slate of election laws into effect on Wednesday that open access to voting by mail to most ...