The U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals allowed Mississippi to continue banning certain felony offenders from voting.

Felony disenfranchisement has a long, and often racist, history. Section 241 of Mississippi’s constitution is no exception. The provision, which permanently bars anyone convicted of a listed felony ...

Cruel and unusual? Supreme Court declines to review Mississippi voting ban for convicted felons Mississippi is one of eleven states that doesn't automatically restore voting rights after convicted ...

A U.S. appeals court on Thursday upheld Mississippi's lifetime ban on voting for people convicted of certain felonies, saying the policy was not a cruel and unusual punishment.

Some Mississippi felons remain disenfranchised unless new state legislation changes it, a circuit court ruled Thursday.

Mississippi Felony Voting Ban Will Remain This November Not being allowed to vote is not “cruel and unusual” punishment under the Constitution, an appeals court ruled.

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi legislators, not the courts, must decide whether to change the state’s practice of stripping voting rights from people convicted of certain felonies ...

Voting Rights Federal Appeals Court Upholds Mississippi's Jim Crow–Era Felon Voting Ban "In short, 'cruel and unusual' is not the same as 'harmful and unfair,'" the court wrote.

The U.S. Supreme Court should overturn Mississippi's practice of removing voting rights from people convicted of certain felonies, attorneys say.

A majority of the 19 judges on the appeals court, which oversees cases in Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas, upheld Mississippi's permanent voting ban for individuals with felony convictions ...

Mississippi legislators, not the courts, must decide whether to change the state’s practice of stripping voting rights from people convicted of certain felonies, including nonviolent crimes such ...

About 38% of Mississippi residents are Black. Nearly 50,000 people were disenfranchised under the state's felony voting ban between 1994 and 2017.