Mississippi is one of only two states that ban first time felony offenders from voting for life. More about voting rights legislation Voting bill, which would have helped non-violent felons, dies ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON − The Supreme Court declined Monday to decide whether a permanent voting ban on people convicted of felonies in Mississippi is cruel and unusual punishment.. The court, in 2023, had ...

July 18 (Reuters) - 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.

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 ...

Learn more about felony disenfranchisement from The Marshall Project - Jackson. Who Can and Can’t Vote in Mississippi: A Guide to the State’s Lifetime Voting Ban; How Mississippi’s Jim Crow Laws Still ...

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 ...

JACKSON, Miss. — 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 ...

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.

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

The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to review Mississippi's lifetime voting ban for felons, known as Section 241. The provision, enacted in 1890, was originally intended to disenfranchise Black voters ...

Felons convicted of specific crimes, including some nonviolent offenses, in Mississippi remain permanently unable to vote unless new state legislation decides to make a change, the 5th Circuit ...