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Further, the Fourteenth Amendment guarantees "equal protection of the laws" to all persons. However, Section 2 of this Amendment allows states to remove voting privileges from anyone who has participated in "rebellion or other crime." [14] A 1972 Supreme Court ruling found that this article applied to disenfranchisement of ex-felons. The Civic ...
Between 1996 and 2008, 28 states changed their laws on felon voting rights, mostly to restore rights or to simplify the process of restoration. [17] Since 2008, state laws have continued to shift, both curtailing and restoring voter rights, sometimes over short periods of time within the same state.
As of 2008, 6.6 to 7.4 percent, or about one in 15 working-age adults were ex-felons. [4] According to an estimate from 2000, there were over 12 million felons in the United States, representing roughly 8% of the working-age population. [5].In 2016, 6.1 million people were disenfranchised due to convictions, representing 2.47% of voting-age ...
Tammy Thompson, left, and Katherin Youniacutt, right, pose for a portrait the night before filing a lawsuit against the state of Texas to reverse the 2019 law that prevents certain convicted ...
The first codification of Texas criminal law was the Texas Penal Code of 1856. Prior to 1856, criminal law in Texas was governed by the common law, with the exception of a few penal statutes. [3] In 1854, the fifth Legislature passed an act requiring the Governor to appoint a commission to codify the civil and criminal laws of Texas.
IMC is partnering with The Dannon Project to impart practical financial skills to a class of 50 ex-offenders through a curriculum it calls F.L.E.E, or Financial Literacy Entrepreneurship and ...
Richardson v. Ramirez, 418 U.S. 24 (1974), [1] was a landmark decision by the Supreme Court of the United States in which the Court held, 6–3, that convicted felons could be barred from voting beyond their sentence and parole without violating the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution.
The state's toughened voting rights restoration policy requires people convicted of a felony to get their gun rights restored before they can become eligible to cast a ballot again, Tennessee’s ...