C.B. Schmelter/Associated Press Jonathan Topaz, staff attorney at the ACLU Voting Rights Project, spoke with Newsweek about the phenomenon of felon disenfranchisement, saying: "There is no actual ...

"Felony disenfranchisement is just the latest in a long line of attempts to restrict ballot access, just like poll taxes, literacy tests and property requirements were used in the past." ...

Felony disenfranchisement is a relic of Jim Crow white supremacy. Its enforcement after the election of a convicted felon to ...

Also contributing to this high disenfranchisement rate is the fact that Tennessee has one of the 10 highest incarceration rates in the country. Finally, while some with a felony conviction can ...

It also gets impacted by felony disenfranchisement, meaning laws that keep people who have been convicted of felonies from voting. These laws also keep people who are currently incarcerated ...

The year was 1974. Richardson v. Ramirez, which involved a challenge to the practice of felon disenfranchisement in California, had just reached the highest court in the land. The Supreme Court ...