Detainees awaiting trial or serving misdemeanor sentences do retain that right, but face barriers to exercising it in many parts of the United States ... jail officials to offer voting for those ...

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The new law allows people with felony convictions to vote as long as they are not currently incarcerated. It expands voting ...

When I was told I could vote, it was an amazing feeling,” Jessie Tate said. “It felt so good. They gave you an ‘I voted’ ...

"The [19]70s was a period when the SJC was carving out greater rights for inmates," said Medwed. "Not just in the 1974 decision but a pair of 1978 decisions." Those 1978 decisions confirmed prisoners' ...

Assembly Democrats want to require notice of voting rights for those who are being released from local jails. The desire is admirable, according to Assemblyman Andrew Goodell, but ultimately ...

Pat Spearman (D-North Las Vegas) has been working to update solitary confinement policies in state prisons, which lag far ...

"The municipal elections afford us the opportunity ... able to expand voting for our inmates in Dallas County Jail." Officials said DCSO shares a vested interest in making sure those charged ...

Voting at the Cook County Jail has risen sharply since the jail added pioneering in-person polling places in 2020. Incarcerated voters say they feel more heard as voting rights groups work to ...

In the past five years alone, Connecticut has banned prison gerrymandering ... In our state and across the nation, voting on Election Day is easy for many people, but not for everyone. Voters are busy ...

It is the largest single act of enfranchisement in over 50 years” for the state, Simon said at Arlington Hills Community ...