The segregation and disenfranchisement laws known as "Jim ... American South for three quarters of a century beginning in the 1890s. The laws affected almost every aspect of daily life, mandating ...

Director of Advocacy Evan Preston said that an amendment to the state's constitution is the most likely vehicle to return ...

Despite the scant justification for U.S. criminal disenfranchisement laws, they have withstood constitutional challenge. Ordinarily, the courts carefully scrutinize state restrictions on the right ...

The Trump campaign is signaling that it intends to make the U.S. a "Christian nation." Here's what that idea looked like in history.

The United States may have the world’s most restrictive criminal disenfranchisement laws. We know of no other democracy besides the United States in which convicted offenders who have served ...

Mississippi ranks 13th among all 50 states in total disenfranchised residents. Disenfranchisement has its roots deep in the ...

Laird is keenly aware that the state’s disenfranchisement system has roots in the state’s racist Jim Crow constitution of 1890. He said the laws represent “pure politics” that continue to ...

A recent disenfranchisement report estimates that 1.7% of adult Missourians cannot vote because of a felony conviction, however, the rate is more than double for Black Missourians. The Sentencing ...

The segregation and disenfranchisement laws known as "Jim ... American South for three quarters of a century beginning in the 1890s. The laws affected almost every aspect of daily life, mandating ...

Disenfranchisement has its roots deep in the soil of a Jim Crow South. During the 1890 constitutional convention in Mississippi, the practice was adopted to prevent Black voters from reaching the ...

Mississippi House lawmakers are again looking to address disenfranchisement of people previously convicted of nonviolent felonies, but the best path forward may require a two-thirds vote of the ...