This article is published as a collaboration between Balls & Strikes and Bolts. Conservative justices on the U.S. Supreme ...

Although the Community Safety Team was called a “first-of-its-kind approach designed for officers to get to know the people ...

After pressure from the governor and attorney general, denials from Alabama’s parole board have skyrocketed, blocking a key ...

The isolation trans women endure inside New Jersey prisons highlights the limits of a landmark reform law the state passed in 2019.

Louisiana’s runoffs on Saturday brought the 2023 legislative elections to a virtual close, settling the final composition of all eight chambers that were renewing their entire membership this fall.

This is the second part of our series this fall on voting reforms in Michigan, after reporting last week on landmark changes to automatic registration. When Oakland County Clerk Lisa Brown looks back ...

Morgan Fox, a native Ohioan who advocates against marijuana prohibition, feels voters spoke loudly in Tuesday’s election when, by a nearly 14-percentage-point margin, they approved Issue 2 to legalize ...

Editor’s note (Nov. 30): Governor Gretchen Whitmer signed this legislation into law on Thursday. To stay on top of local voting rights news, sign up for our weekly newsletter. Nobody told Percy Glover ...

When speaking to voters, John Whitmire often travels back to New Year’s Day in 1992, when a gunman robbed him outside his northside Houston home, stealing his wallet and his wife’s purse. Whitmire, a ...

Criminal justice reformers suffered a major defeat on Tuesday in the Pittsburgh region, as Stephen Zappala, Allegheny County’s punitive 25-year district attorney, secured a seventh term by besting ...