One significant piece of election legislation signed into law by Gov. Kathy Hochul on Wednesday revolves around electoral ...

Hamer held the committee’s attention as she spoke from memory about her eviction from the Marlow plantation and her brutal beating in the Winona jail. After less than 10 minutes she concluded ...

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

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

The right to vote in a free and fair election is the most basic civil right, one on which many other rights of the American ... or the president of the United States, every American must be ...

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 ...

Should Raskin and all those ... the sacred voting rights of American citizens? Their actions were morally wrong and violated their sacred oaths, yet I believe it would be wrong to hold them ...

According to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, the jail currently houses more than 2,500 inmates, double the amount it was originally designed to hold in ... civil rights,” US Attorney General ...

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 ...

Those who cannot come up with the money either have to remain in jail ... the United States, a second to obstruct an official government proceeding and a third to deprive people of civil rights ...