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New Poll: Voters in Key Election States Overwhelmingly Agree

... U.S. Senate to fix the nation's criminal justice system. Voters strongly believe that, as a result of mandatory minimum practices, our ...

State Reforms Reverse Decades of Incarceration Growth

Research has identified effective alternatives to incarceration. Voters across the political spectrum strongly support criminal justice reform.

Ending Mass Incarceration: Ideas from Today's Leaders

From eliminating prison for lower-level crimes to incentivizing states to decarcerate, from ending money bail to abolishing private prisons,

Polarization, Democracy, and Political Violence in the United States

American voters are less ideologically polarized than they think they are, and that misperception is greatest for the most politically engaged people.

Dems eye cash bail, 'second look' criminal justice reforms in ...

Big changes to how courts handle bail and a possible “second look” at prisoner sentences are among the major criminal justice reforms ...

The Effort to Reform the Federal Criminal Justice System

But then, almost miraculously, Congress passed a federal prison and sentencing reform bill called the First Step Act in December 2018.18 The ...

Trump and His Allies Are Starting To Face Accountability for Their ...

Trump and His Allies Are Starting To Face Accountability for Their Plot To Overturn the 2020 Presidential Election. The justice system is ...

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Restore Your Vote: I have a felony conviction. Can I vote?

While many states have some restriction on felon voting rights, most states restore the right to vote to citizens after they complete their sentences.

Conservatives and Criminal Justice | National Affairs

The tough-on-crime ethos was never embedded as deeply among liberals as it was among conservatives. As a result, the change in conservative politics created the ...

The President's Role in Advancing Criminal Justice Reform

Criminal justice reform has been a focus of my entire career — even since before my time at the Harvard Law Review. As a community organizer, I ...

Voting Rights: A Short History - Carnegie Corporation of New York

America began its great democratic experiment in the late 1700s by granting the right to vote to a narrow subset of society — white male landowners ...

Leaked Video: Dark Money Group Brags About Writing GOP Voter ...

The head of a top conservative group boasted that her outfit had crafted the new voter suppression law in Georgia and was doing the same with similar bills for ...

Proposition 47: CA Democrats push alternative measure - CalMatters

Gov. Newsom and Democratic legislative leaders put forward a crime ballot measure to compete with one that would roll back Proposition 47.

Disenfranchisement and Suppression of Black Voters in the United ...

Systemic barriers such as gerrymandering, voting regulations for imprisoned persons, voter ID laws, lack of access to polling locations, and ...

House passes bill to ban noncitizens from voting in federal elections

House Republicans and a handful of Democrats on Wednesday approved a bill that seeks to expand proof-of-citizenship requirements to vote in federal elections.

The Voting Rights Act of 1965: Background and Overview

The Voting Rights Act (VRA) was successfully challenged in a June 2013 case decided by the. U.S. Supreme Court in Shelby County, Alabama v.

The Evolution of Absentee/Mail Voting Laws, 2020 through 2022

With information from public health officials, policymakers had to decide if COVID warranted changes to election processes and how to ...

How the Most Important Judicial Races of 2024 Played Out

Democrats expanded their majority in Michigan, Republican justices solidified theirs in Ohio, and a justice was ousted in Oklahoma.

Post-Election Memo: What Happens Next - Working Families Party

Though it may not feel like it today, this is the beginning of the end of the Trump and the MAGA era.