69 Criminal disenfranchisement laws may also be ... of blacks at a time when an explicit grant of suffrage to African Americans was not politically possible. Section 2 “put southern States ...

The Sentencing Project’s Locked Out 2024 report estimates that 1.7% of Missourians over 18 can’t vote because they have ...

A century of liberal proposals have failed to curb racialized poverty, because they've been focused on the wrong thing.

The segregation and disenfranchisement laws known as "Jim Crow" represented a formal, codified system of racial apartheid that dominated the American South for three quarters of a century ...

The Fourteenth Amendment allowed states to disenfranchise those convicted ... resulted in the vote being denied to thousands of African Americans who, as a group, have been disproportionately ...

Given the major impact of felony disenfranchisement laws on the voting population, and in particular their strikingly disproportionate impact on African Americans, policymakers should consider ...

Tens of thousands of Tennesseans with felony convictions are unable to vote in the Nov. 5 General Election. Research by The ...