News
June 23
In a handful of key states, no more than 1 in 4 formerly incarcerated people registered in time for the 2020 election, a Marshall Project analysis found.
News
October 26, 2020
The majority of the 745,000 people held in local jails can vote, but few do. Advocates say it’s voter suppression on a national scale.
News
September 19, 2019
The state’s byzantine felony disenfranchisement laws keep hundreds of thousands of formerly incarcerated residents from registering to vote.
Commentary
November 7, 2018
Florida’s Election Shows the True Promise of Restoring Voting Rights
With the passage of Amendment 4, more than a million people intimately affected by the criminal justice system have become more empowered to shape it.
Commentary
August 20, 2018
Denying voting rights to people with felony convictions has roots in racist laws.
Case in Point
October 24, 2016
Ex-prisoners challenge a law that lets local bureaucrats judge “moral turpitude.”
News
August 5, 2015
The evolving state of voting rights for prisoners.