The state Senate on Wednesday agreed to restore voting rights to four people who have completed their prison sentences and ...
The United States ... obliges prison authorities to encourage prisoners to assert their voting rights and to facilitate voting procedures. The only prisoners who may not vote are those convicted ...
Nebraska lawmakers passed a bill Thursday to restore of voting rights of those convicted of felonies upon the completion of ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 felony conviction in at least one of four criminal trials could bar the ex-president from casting a ballot in November's ...
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?” ...
"This ruling gives us hope not just for Ms. Mason, but for the broader fight for voting rights in Texas," said Christina Beeler, voting rights attorney at the Texas Civil Rights Project ...
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 ...