Ramulus Mason was sentenced to life without parole due to North Carolina’s three-strikes law. The man he shot insists that he ...

A new law will restore voting rights for tens of thousands of people on probation and parole. It’s a departure from other GOP ...

As Chicago’s top cop steps down, police are making fewer traffic stops. But our new investigation finds half of stops are ...

California officials dial back the minor reforms they've made to isolation in prison, four years after Governor Gavin Newsom ...

When Confederate states rejoined the Union after the Civil War, Congress anticipated that white lawmakers across the South would manipulate and weaponize the criminal legal system to prevent Black ...

The resounding defeat of Ohio’s Issue 1, a constitutional amendment that would have undercut direct democracy in the state, received wall-to-wall coverage last week because it salvaged the prospect ...

Who are the local and state officials responsible for counting, canvassing, and certifying elections? On this page, Bolts maps out each state’s system. It lays out who is responsible for the different ...

Below are the candidates who filed to run for district attorney and sheriff by the state’s filing deadline for major party candidates. (This list was published as of January 2026; unaffiliated ...

The water system that provides for the entire Spirit Lake Reservation in North Dakota has been contaminated with dangerous levels of manganese that have made the water undrinkable since May. For Lonna ...

The violence of Trump’s immigration crackdown in cities across the country and the killing of protesters by federal agents have put pressure on local leaders to change their approach to federal ...

Morris mostly lived in solitary confinement from the time he went to prison in 1978, the year “Grease” was released, until he got out in 2017—alone 23 hours a day inside a cell the size of a parking ...