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

Starting Thursday, former inmates can register to go to the polls. The Legislature passed that change to state law this year.

Michigan has the highest number of juvenile lifers in the country. Advocates are pushing for laws that would ban sentencing ...

Around 1,100 of the 1,709 Wisconsinites in prison for crimes they committed as youth were convicted of offenses they committed when they were 17 years old, the report found, using data it obtained ...

Excerpts from recent editorials in the United States and abroad: May 28 The Washington Post on the debt limit Finally, ...

Nevada is considering several bills protecting transgender rights. But Gov. Joe Lombardo hasn’t indicated whether or not he ...

A three-judge panel on Thursday dismissed a lawsuit challenging Arkansas' 2021 U.S. House map, ruling that opponents of the ...

The murder of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police, and the fervent protests that erupted around the world, looked to many observers like the catalyst needed for a ...

GOP-held Texas state House sets Saturday afternoon vote on impeachment of Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton.