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Gov. Kathy Hochul is expected to sign legislation that could make as many as two million people eligible to have their criminal records sealed.

The disclosure came just a week before an election that will decide control of the state’s closely divided legislature.

The fall of a Jim Crow-era election law and a restoration of felons’ voting rights have given Black voters new sway in the state. Democrats’ underdog nominee for governor is looking to capitalize.

When the Minnesota Board of Pardons meets, supplicants have 10 minutes to make the case for mercy.

He shored up Russian forces at their most vulnerable and drew Ukraine into a costly fight for Bakhmut, giving Moscow time to build defenses that are slowing Ukraine’s counteroffensive.

At age 17, Donnell Drinks was one of many young men in Philadelphia who went to prison for life without parole. Today, the city has resentenced more of those prisoners than any other jurisdiction.

In an account provided to The Times, a Russian soldier describes his commanders’ casual disregard for the lives of inmates like him, and how they are pressured to re-enlist.

In response to soaring overdose deaths in state prisons, California started a sprawling addiction program. But keeping people on medication during and after a sentence can be difficult.

A federal appeals court said that barring people convicted of certain felonies from voting pointlessly denied them access to “the democratic core of American citizenship.”

Music written and performed by incarcerated people has the power to transform how we think about the people who make it.