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Article • April 1, 2025 • from PLN April, 2025
GOP Washington Lawmaker Trolls Felon Enfranchisement Proponents by In Washington, newly elected state Sen. Leonard Christian (R-Spokane Valley) wasted little time in introducing a bill in February 2025 to save a building slated for demolition at the state Capitol in Olympia and turn it into a work-release center for state …
Article • March 1, 2025 • from PLN March, 2025
Minnesota High Court Restores Voting Rights of Former Felons by On August 7, 2024, the Minnesota Supreme Court upheld the 2023 Restore the Vote Act (RVA), which returned the right to vote to individuals with felony convictions upon completion of their prison sentences. The law had been challenged a summer …
Florida Court of Appeals Reinstates Voter Fraud Charges Against Ex-Felons by On July 17, 2024, the Third and Fourth District Courts of Appeals of Florida reinstated voter fraud charges against two former prisoners which had previously been dismissed. Ronald Lee Miller was charged with illegally voting as an ex-felon in …
Article • September 15, 2024 • from PLN September, 2024
Texas Appeals Court Tosses Former Prisoner’s Illegal Voting Conviction by On March 28, 2024, Texas’ Second District Court of Appeals (COA2D) overturned Crystal Mason’s illegal voting conviction, ruling that the state failed to present any evidence of criminal intent by the Black grandmother from Fort Worth to vote illegally in …
Brief • July 19, 2023
Florida Rights Restoration Coalition v. Desantis, FL, Complaint, Voter Rights, 2023 Case 1:23-cv-22688-XXXX Document 1 Entered on FLSD Docket 07/19/2023 Page 1 of 74 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF FLORIDA FLORIDA RIGHTS RESTORATION COALITION, RHOSHANDA JONES, ANGEL SANCHEZ, AUTUMN WAITE, and BRANDON WALTHOUR, Plaintiffs, EM O …
Florida Makes Parolees Criminally Liable for Accidental Voter Registration Fraud by David Reutter by David M. Reutter Florida took a significant step towards charging more ex-convicts with voter fraud, eight days after Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) announced the first 20 arrests in August 2022. [See: PLN, Jan. 2023, p.18.] On …
Article • March 28, 2021
Congress Tackles Restoring Voting Rights to Felons, Makes Remarkable Progress by Dale Chappell by Dale Chappell  More and more states across the country have been coming around and allowing those with felony records to vote, some even allowing prisoners to vote. Now Congress has jumped on-board, the House of Representatives …
Tennessee Conference of NAACP v. Lee, TN, Class Action Complaint, Voting Rights for Former Felons, 2020 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE MIDDLE DISTRICT OF TENNESSEE NASHVILLE DIVISION TENNESSEE CONFERENCE of the NATIONAL ASSOCIATION for the ADVANCEMENT of COLORED PEOPLE, on behalf of itself and its members, and …
Article • May 1, 2020 • from PLN May, 2020
Kentucky Governor’s Executive Order Restores Voting Rights for Felons by David Reutter by David M. Reutter Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear issued an executive order that restored the voting rights of over 140,000 convicted felons. The order was signed just days after Beshear was sworn in in December 2019, and it …
Article • October 7, 2019 • from PLN October, 2019
Filed under: Voting, Voting Rights Act
Lawsuits Challenge Florida Law that Undermines Voting Rights Ballot Initiative by David M. Reutter by David M. Reutter Organizations that supported Amendment 4 – a 2018 ballot initiative to amend the Florida Constitution to restore voting rights to most people with felony convictions – have sued to block a new …
Publication • August 1, 2019
CLC, Georgetown Law Civil Rights Clinic Report -- "Can't Pay, Can't Vote.: A National Survey on the Modern Poll Tax," 2019 Can’t Pay, Can’t Vote: A NATIONAL SURVEY ON THE MODERN POLL TAX Table of Contents Executive Summary 4 Introduction 7 Part I: History and Context 13 A. Poll Taxes …
U.S. Commission on Civil Rights - Collateral Consequences - The Crossroads of Punishment, Redemption and the Effects on Communities, 2019 U . S . C O M M I S S I O N O N C I V I L R I G H T S COLLATERAL CONSEQUENCES: The …
Article • October 26, 2018
Filed under: Voting Rights Act
Voting rights: Tennessee Man Convicted of Murder No Longer Infamous by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon Tennessee places a great deal of reverence on voting rights. The state’s citizens do not automatically lose their voting rights upon conviction of a felony unless that crime is among those on a list …
Brief • April 10, 2018
All of Us or None-LA v. Logan, CA, Felon Disenfranchisement, Complaint, 2018 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 IO 11 12 13. Joshua E. Kim (SBN 257260) Stephanie Lin (SBN 293696) A NEW WAY OF LIFE RE-ENTRY PROJECT 9512 S. Central Ave. Los Angeles, California 90002 Ph: (323) …
Article • December 5, 2017 • from PLN December, 2017
Filed under: Voting, Voting Rights Act
New Zealand Court Decision: Voting Ban Violates Human Rights of Prisoners by Monte McCoin by Monte McCoin On May 26, 2017, the Court of Appeal of New Zealand issued a decision in the case of Attorney General v. Taylor, which upheld High Court Justice Paul Heath’s July 25, 2015 determination …
Brief • April 27, 2017
Hand v Scott, FL Complaint, Voting Rights, 2017 Case 4:17-cv-00128-MW-CAS Document 29 Filed 04/27/17 Page 1 of 82 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF FLORIDA TALLAHASSEE DIVISION JAMES MICHAEL HAND, ) JOSEPH JAMES GALASSO, ) HAROLD W. GIRCSIS, JR., ) CHRISTOPHER MICHAEL SMITH, ) WILLIAM BASS, JERMAINE …
Hand v. Scott, FL, Class Action Complaint, Disenfranchised Former Felons, 2017 Case 4:17-cv-00128-MW-CAS Document 1 Filed 03/13/17 Page 1 of 77 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF FLORIDA TALLAHASSEE DIVISION JAMES MICHAEL HAND, ) JOSEPH JAMES GALASSO, ) HAROLD W. GIRCSIS, JR., ) CHRISTOPHER MICHAEL SMITH, ) …
6 Million Lost Voters - State-Level Estimates of Felony Disenfranchisement, Sentencing Project, 2016 6 Million Lost Voters: State-Level Estimates of Felony Disenfranchisement, 2016 For more information, contact: The Sentencing Project 1705 DeSales Street NW 8th Floor Washington, D.C. 20036 (202) 628-0871 sentencingproject.org twitter.com/sentencingproj facebook.com/thesentencingproject This report was written by Christopher …
A Primer on Prisoners’ Constitutional Rights by Alex Friedmann Prison Legal News (PLN) regularly reports on prison and jail-related court decisions involving violations of prisoners’ constitutional rights. Those who are new to the arena of civil rights litigation and unfamiliar with prisoners’ few remaining rights may need a basic introduction …
Article • November 8, 2016 • from PLN November, 2016
Arkansas Secretary of State Issues Faulty Felon Data, Thousands Purged from Electoral Rolls by It will be up to county clerks in Arkansas to fix a grand-scale mistake by Secretary of State Mark Martin’s office, and the ability of thousands of people to vote in November’s general election is in …
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