Florida Republicans spent weeks squabbling over rival immigration bills. Their conflict wasn’t over significant policy ...

Dawn Jackson took a plea deal and was sentenced to 30 years in a New Jersey prison for killing her step-grandfather, Robert ...

Every year, police departments nationwide initiate thousands of high-speed car chases, often with little public inquiry ...

Alonzo Bland Jr., of Richmond, did everything the state asked of him following his felony conviction: He served time in state ...

On Inauguration Day, thousands marched through subzero temperatures in downtown Chicago to protest the imminent threat of immigration raids on their city. Multiple weekend reports had indicated that ...

Conservative judges have chipped away at voting rights and put the Voting Rights Act through renewed stress over the last decade. They’re now set to gain new allies with the incoming Trump ...

Send us your questions about how prisons make incarcerated people work, from the history of the practice to the efforts to change it. As wildfires rage through Los Angeles, incarcerated firefighters ...

On July 7, 2022, days after Chad LaVia was freed from a year of incarceration at the jail in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, the county sent him a bill for $14,320 in “room and board” fees—$40 for each ...

After losing his reelection bid last summer, Georgia State Court Judge Stephen Yekel turned to a loophole in state law that could have erased the result and blocked the winner from taking office. In ...

There are more than 150 elections for prosecutor and sheriff scheduled in 2025. Below is our Bolts database of those local elections. You can also read our preview of these races here. States that are ...