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 ...

After the Civil War, Congress readmitted Southern states on the condition they not expand felony disenfranchisement—but they ...

One morning in late January, civil engineer Juan Sebastián Carvajal-Muñoz was driving to work in Portland, Maine, when federal agents in town for the so-called Operation Catch of the Day... Read More ...

Santa Clara District Attorney Jeff Rosen has twice now brought felony conspiracy and vandalism charges against Stanford University students who occupied a campus building in 2024 in protest of ...

When residents of Whittier, a majority-Latino suburb of Los Angeles, came out in large numbers last summer to protest a rush of ICE operations, the city’s Republican leaders remained unfazed. Masked ...

A pair of liberal attorneys say they'll be more aggressive in defense of democracy as they try to oust Georgia justices on May 19, as the Callais ruling may make state courts more pivotal. Two liberal ...

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled last week that it’s unconstitutional to automatically sentence someone to life in prison without the possibility for parole for a killing they didn’t participate ...

Last November, the city of Verona, Wisconsin, voted to pull out of the sprawling surveillance network run by tech company Flock Safety in hopes of protecting residents’ privacy and preventing the ...