‘A Life Sentence.’ How Mississippi’s Forever Voting Ban Keeps Thousands From the Polls.
The state’s disenfranchisement law punishes people with nonviolent offenses, as reform fails in the Legislature and courts.
Court says Jim Crow-era felony voting ban in Mississippi can be altered by lawmakers, not judges
Nearly 50,000 people were disenfranchised under Mississippi’s felony voting ban between 1994 and 2017, and about 59% of them ...
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Who Can and Can’t Vote in Mississippi: A Guide to the State’s Lifetime Voting Ban This guide offers details about the ... white supremacists used felony disenfranchisement to suppress the Black vote.
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Lawyers successfully argued that a Jim Crow-era law banning felons from voting is cruel and unusual punishment
These Jim Crow-era laws included a lifetime voting ban on any Mississippi resident convicted ... similar voting laws for people convicted of a felony — and each of them strip voting rights ...
Opinion: Black Tennesseans should not let apathy or barriers keep them from voting
Mississippi Boulevard Christian Church in Memphis Senior Pastor urges Memphians to register to vote for the Nov. 5 election ...
Horror Stories from Post-Roe America
The fall of Roe has transformed not just what it means to be pregnant in the United States but the practice of medicine and ...
These Stories from Post-Roe America Are Harrowing
The fall of Roe has transformed not just what it means to be pregnant in the United States but the practice of medicine and ...
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‘A life sentence.’ How Mississippi’s forever voting ban keeps thousands from the polls
In most U.S. states, Cook would have been able to vote as he did in Georgia, despite his prior conviction. Mississippi is among 11 states that ban at least some people with felony convictions from ...
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‘A life sentence.’ How Mississippi’s forever voting ban keeps thousands from the polls
In most U.S. states, Cook would have been able to vote as he did in Georgia, despite his prior conviction. Mississippi is among 11 states that ban at least some people with felony convictions from ...