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Tennessee has the nation’s second highest number of residents who remain disenfranchised because of past felony convictions.

An inmate hoped to start over with a clean slate by fighting in Ukraine. Instead, he was confronted by the drudgery of trench work and the terror of battle. “You’re going in as meat,” he said he was told.

In “Genealogy of a Murder,” Lisa Belkin maps the meandering roads that wound through families and decades before intersecting in tragedy.

Lawmakers in New York may pass the Clean Slate Act, which would seal criminal records for those who finish their sentences and stay out of trouble for several years.

Lexington police said they used a license plate reader system, traffic cameras and other information to locate the suspect at a nearby home where he was taken into custody.

In “Genealogy of a Murder,” Lisa Belkin maps the meandering roads that wound through families and decades before intersecting in tragedy.

Readers react to a guest essay extolling the benefits of walking. Also: Ex-inmates’ re-entry into society; a Disney film banned in a Florida school.

State after state has eased restrictions on voting for former felons in recent years. But Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s reversal suggests growing wariness on the right.

As thousands of ex-prisoners fight and die in Ukraine, honoring their memory is becoming a patriotic imperative in Russia. But some committed crimes their old neighbors cannot forget.

Geopolitics forced an entrepreneur, Taylor Shupe, to bring jobs back from China. It’s helping sell his meme-inspired socks too.