Civil rights advocates say Mississippi needs to simplify the process of restoring voting rights to people convicted of some ...
A House bill ordering North Carolina sheriffs and jailers to comply with federal immigration requests to hold an inmate ...
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Nebraska lawmakers passed a bill Thursday to restore the voting rights of those convicted of felonies upon the completion of their sentences, including prison and parole time.
“I couldn’t be happier!” exclaimed one of their coaches, Jackson Erpenback, “they did an amazing job. The Georgetown team is ...
Sen. Mike Seymour, a Republican from Vancleave, was the only person in the 52-member Senate who voted against all of the suffrage restoration bills. Reporters attempted to ask Seymour why he opposed ...
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 ...
A divided legislative committee on Wednesday delayed a vote on legislation that would give state inmates the right to to speak by video conference at their parole hearings.
The current suffrage restoration process in Mississippi requires a legislator to submit a bill on each person’s behalf.
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 ...
(AP) — 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 ...