The state Senate on Wednesday agreed to restore voting rights to four people who have completed their prison sentences and ...
A federal judge ruled Tennessee needs to update its forms and process for voting rights restoration. The judge also found ...
Former President Donald Trump is preparing for his first of four upcoming criminal trials next week, and a single conviction ...
Civil rights advocates say Mississippi needs to simplify the process of restoring voting rights to people convicted of some ...
The current suffrage restoration process in Mississippi requires a legislator to submit a bill on each person’s behalf.
Seventeen residents of the DC Jail make up the Defense Coalition. The group is part of the National Prison Debate League and is its first co-ed team inside a jail where turnover rate is higher than ...
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 ...
While the U.S. Constitution doesn’t explicitly bar felons from serving as president, a number of states do restrict felons’ ...
Norfolk residents discussed everything from voting restoration rights to public defender shortages and substance abuse in prison at a criminal ... “If all three of us get arrested,” Fatehi ...
So why don't those rights count when people do not go to prison or ... t the right to vote, isn't that just a bundle of independent rights in addition to the right to hold office?” ...
Kenneth Almons says he began a sentence in a Mississippi prison just two ... and said restoring voting rights “is a fundamental human rights issue.” “Let us remember that the fight for ...
While the U.S. Constitution doesn’t explicitly bar felons from serving as president, a number of states do restrict felons’ voting rights ... the trials are being held raises questions ...