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 ...

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 ...

More than a quarter-century after Massachusetts voters rescinded incarcerated felons’ right to vote, there’s another effort ...

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.

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

Currently, no public record accurately states the number of people affected by Mississippi’s lifetime voting ban. However, one report says that roughly 50,000 people were disenfranchised from ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

A federal appeals court upheld Mississippi’s lifetime voting ban for those with certain felony convictions on Thursday.. A majority of judges on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit ...

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