While states in recent years have moved away from Jim Crow-era policies, several still make it difficult for people leaving prison to regain the right to vote When a US federal appeals court ...

Former felony offenders most likely will face significant hurdles to a successful reentry to life outside of prison ... rights would favor Democrats and that voting should be reserved for those ...

Utah is a standout among red states for its voting ... of those are Democrat-leaning. Montana, North Dakota and Indiana are other red states that restore voting rights after prison.

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 ...

The state already allows people held in county jails to register and vote, but people serving time in prisons do not have the same rights. Rep. La Shawn Ford (D-Chicago) believes every American ...

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 ...

Last year voting rights were restored to previous convicts as they are not currently serving a prison sentence. This month, ...

In many of those areas today, black voter participation exceeds that of whites. The act could now be used to shape election outcomes in addition to protecting voting rights ... one party or the other.

Throughout Abron Arrington’s decades-long incarceration in Colorado, he often found himself in solitary confinement—not ...

Ohio voting-rights groups want to dismiss their lawsuit ... compared to the four of 16 they had held previously. Ohio had lost one seat under the 2020 Census because of lagging population growth.

Gov. Kathleen C. Hochul signed a slate of election laws into effect on Wednesday that open access to voting by mail to most ...