Civil rights advocates say Mississippi needs to simplify the process of restoring voting rights to people convicted of some ...
A House bill ordering North Carolina sheriffs and jailers to comply with federal immigration requests to hold an inmate ...
A federal judge ruled Tennessee needs to update its forms and process for voting rights restoration. The judge also found ...
The state Senate moved quickly to pass legislation requiring local sheriffs to hold people they arrest at the request of ...
The House Judiciary B Committee moved forward 27 bills to return voting rights to people previously convicted of felonies on ...
Despite a 2017 Alabama law banning judges from sentencing defendants to death when juries recommend life in prison, 30 ...
A felony conviction in at least one of four criminal trials could bar the ex-president from casting a ballot in November's general election.
A divided legislative committee on Wednesday delayed a vote on legislation that would give state inmates the right to to speak by video conference at their parole hearings.
Some colleges have canceled or modified graduation ceremonies as more than 2,000 people have been arrested on campuses since April 18, as pro-Palestinian protests ripples across the US. Follow for ...
President Joe Biden said Thursday that “dissent is essential for democracy,” but “chaos” has no part in a peaceful protest. He spoke as arrests continue on campuses around the U.S. as police dismantle ...
Dozens of New York police officers in riot gear entered Columbia’s campus Tuesday night after issuing a dispersal order to ...
Student protests over the Israel-Hamas war have ignited at colleges across the U.S., with hundreds arrested or suspended.