The closure of an infamous jail kicked off a process for community members to imagine what should come next. St. Louis city leaders heard them out, but also made their own plans.

After Chicago police arrested Luis Gonzalez on an illegal gun possession charge in 2022, getting out of jail was his ...

Ever since the Arizona Supreme Court upheld a near-total abortion ban this month, pro-choice advocates have rushed to reverse it. They’ve pushed the GOP-run legislature to repeal the law, to no avail ...

Bolts covers prosecutor and sheriff races around the nation. Below are the candidates who filed to run for prosecutor and sheriff by Arizona’s filing deadline for major-party candidates. The ...

Among the many ways Oregon has been at the vanguard of making voting easier, perhaps none is more significant than its 1998 ...

The Texas supreme court closed out 2023 by blocking an abortion during a medical emergency, forcing a woman to flee the state. Just days before Christmas, Wisconsin justices struck down the state’s ...

State Public Defender Rémy Starns holds a monthly virtual gathering with the lawyers in charge of Louisiana’s 42 public defender offices. “Coffee with Rémy,” as he calls these meetings, has become ...

Michael Pernick, a voting rights lawyer at the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, depends on precinct-level election returns to bring many of his lawsuits. He needs that granular data to analyze whether local ...

Charles Taylor was working to put Medicaid expansion on the ballot in the spring of 2021, when Mississippi’s supreme court stepped in and voided any avenue for direct democracy. With the state’s ...

When a state made cuts to Medicaid, depriving people of access to health insurance, the crime rate increased: That’s the finding of a new academic study, supported by the National Institutes of Health ...

Reporting on immigration, I have often thought that there are really two borders between the U.S. and Mexico: the physical line between countries that migrants risk their lives trying to cross, and ...