While a pending constitutional amendment to automatically restore voting rights to people with felony convictions who have ...

Giles at least had the chance of having his voting rights restored. Three states -- Florida, Kentucky and Virginia -- permanently disenfranchise felons and ex-felons. By contrast, two states -- ...

With five months to go until the November election, a unique group of voters could play a pivotal rule in deciding the next president: felons. A Florida judge recently ruled felons, who have left ...

Punishing criminals is an outrage among the progressive set, who work diligently to reframe a prison sentence as little more than a change of address. Criminal justice and voting rights advocates in ...

As citizens of the United States and participants in a democracy, we have basic rights protected by the Constitution including but not limited to, the right to vote. Felons deserve to maintain their ...

(The Center Square) – Some Democrats and electoral rights groups want progress on legislation in Springfield that would give people in prison across the state the ability to vote just weeks after ...

As thousands of Virginians with certain past felony convictions remain in a voting registration limbo, a civil rights group ...

Florida GOP Readies Poll Tax to Nullify Ex-Felons’ Voting RightsFloridians voted to re-enfranchise the formerly incarcerated last fall. Republicans want to make them pay off all court fines and fees ...

The Gulf South has some of the strictest laws when it comes to losing one’s right to vote because of past criminal convictions, and also getting that right back. Some Mississippi lawmakers have been ...