The court’s ruling could create a pathway out of prison for more than 1,000 people who were automatically sentenced to life ...

We’re tracking elections across 12 states. Virginia and Wisconsin have statewide contests, school board races test conservative messaging, and parties battle to control cities, counties, and even ...

A bill passed by lawmakers would not outright bar local contracts with ICE. But they could continue only if ICE accepts due ...

New Jersey Governor Mikie Sherrill on Wednesday signed legislation banning local law enforcement agencies from partnering ...

In the nearly three decades Barry Jones spent on Arizona’s death row, he often contemplated how he would die. A series of failed appeals to prove his innocence had culminated with the U.S. Supreme ...

As Alaskans consider this fall whether to repeal their new ranked-choice voting election system, leaders of the state’s Native tribes have emerged as key defenders of the system. They’re working to ...

Prisons across the United States run on incarcerated labor. People behind bars cook food, sew clothes, clean facilities, manufacture goods, and even work in dangerous industries like agriculture and ...

This article is produced as a collaboration between Bolts and Mother Jones. For the first time since the murder of George Floyd by police officer Derek Chauvin in May 2020, voters in Minneapolis and ...

Donald Trump’s promise of “mass deportations” looms over millions of people who live in the United States. But the infrastructure to detain immigrants didn’t start with Trump. U.S. Immigration & ...

This article was produced as a collaboration between Bolts and The Intercept. Alan Miller had spent the six months leading up to his execution confined to his cell. Though Miller was never given an ...

T.R. Edwards grew up with stories from his grandmother Kathleen about her struggle to vote as a Black woman in Wisconsin: A child of the Jim Crow south, she’d moved to Madison in the 1970s, and then ...

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