An effort By Sen. Juan Barnett, D-Heidelberg, to phase out Mississippi's 124-year-old Parchman prison was again killed this year before it could be debated on the Senate floor. On Wednesday ...

VELLORE: Vellore Central Prison has introduced the Freedom Poultry Farm, an initiative aimed at providing fresh poultry to the public. The farm, located adjacent to the prison, started functioning ...

held on July 19 and 20, 1848. Over 300 men and women attended. Over a hundred years ago, on December 14, 1923, a proposed amendment first came before the United States Congress. It read in its ...

A bill to close Parchman Farm failed in the Senate for the second time. Plus, updates on Medicaid and ballot initiative efforts in the Legislature ...

In the aftermath of the Civil War, white southerners tried to restore, at gunpoint, the slave society that had existed prior to the war, notwithstanding the Thirteenth Amendment’s abolition of ...

“The 13th, 14th and 15th amendments were designed to enshrine Lincoln’s promise of a new America.” The amendment’s first section begins: However, as so often is the case, this reaffirmed ...

As promised, my new paper on the Equal Rights Amendment, "The Twelfth Amendment and the ERA," is now available on SSRN. The paper lays out new historical evidence on prior Article V amendments ...

Maggie Haberman is a White House reporter. The Associated Press on Wednesday accused the White House of violating the First Amendment and called on the Trump administration to stop blocking its ...

In a pair of cases heard this month, the Supreme Court has faced collisions between the First Amendment’s right to speech and the unprecedented dangers presented by the internet and social media.