massincarceration
Last November, federal prosecutors invited Ilene Wahpeta, an incarcerated woman, to give a victim impact statement at the sentencing of Andrew Jones, a Bureau of Prisons (BOP) employee who was convicted of sexually assaulting three other inmates. Less than a year later, the U.S. government is fighting a petition Wahpeta filed for early release based on the same allegations that prosecutors previously invited her to speak about, arguing she wasn't a named victim in the criminal case against Jones and that her claims aren't credible. The Justice Department announced in 2022, amid several damning...
Reason
Fifty-six thousand North Carolina felons, who are not currently serving time, are now eligible to vote, after a preliminary state panel ruling. Civil rights groups filed a lawsuit in 2019 in an attempt to restore voting rights for previously convicted felons. In September, a three-judge panel ruled that barring felons from voting violated two provisions of North Carolina’s Constitution. And, on Monday, a three-judge panel voted to expand the ruling to now include felons on probation, parole or post-release supervision. The North Carolina State Board of Elections released the following statemen...
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