Congress is poised to pour tens of billions of dollars into more immigration detention, private jails, and border operations, ...

Malcolm Alexander had been incarcerated at Angola prison 14 years already when he learned about DNA testing, the thing that ...

As always, this guide is not an exhaustive list of all elections in May, but just our selection of the races to monitor. Voters are also deciding city councilors and county commissioners all around ...

St. Louis city councilGeneral election This city council race to replace Cara Spencer, who became mayor in April, is unfolding against the backdrop of state Republicans’ heavy crackdown against St.

Candidates bring up a criminal case that occurred on their opponent’s watch, and use it to attack them for being too lenient.

In North Dakota as elsewhere, Native voters face a triple threat: judges targeting the VRA, Trump officials hostile to ...

Multiple Texas attorneys who specialize in reproductive health told Bolts that SB 2880 and its inclusion of language amending the state’s century-old abortion law could constitute an unprecedented ...

Still, that “egalitarian pressure” is felt very unevenly. For one, Indigenous Australians were largely excluded from the 1902 electoral act that gave other Australian men and women the right to vote, ...

Jones remembers being jumped by six other kids his first day at North Carolina’s High Rise youth prison, a towering 16-story building in between Asheville and Charlotte that the state would tear down ...

Our guide starts this Tuesday—April 1—with the elections in Wisconsin, Florida, and Mississippi, plus races in Alaska, Illinois, and Nebraska. Then, watch local elections in St. Louis and San Diego on ...