Democratic Secretary of State Steve Simon on Thursday registered newly-eligible ex-felons to vote after a law ...

The new law allows people with felony convictions to vote as long as they are not currently incarcerated. It expands voting ...

This week's Supreme Court decision ordering Alabama to redraw its congressional districts was seen by many minority lawmakers ...

House GOP leader Steve Scalise denied that leadership threatened to hold an anti-ATF pistol brace bill hostage to secure ...

Why did DeSantis’ election police arrest former felons for unknowingly casting improper votes, while a GOP state attorney ...

Michigan has the highest number of juvenile lifers in the country. Advocates are pushing for laws that would ban sentencing ...

Around 1,100 of the 1,709 Wisconsinites in prison for crimes they committed as youth were convicted of offenses they committed when they were 17 years old, the report found, using data it obtained ...

Munyaradzi Mushawatu, an electrician in Zimbabwe’s capital, Harare, was both ecstatic and jittery after President Emmerson ...

A three-judge panel on Thursday dismissed a lawsuit challenging Arkansas' 2021 U.S. House map, ruling that opponents of the ...

Nevada is considering several bills protecting transgender rights. But Gov. Joe Lombardo hasn’t indicated whether or not he ...

Uyghur human rights lawyer and advocate Rayhan Asat told UPI that more needs to be done to hold China accountable for the ...

The murder of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police, and the fervent protests that erupted around the world, looked to many observers like the catalyst ...