The FCC blocked Biden-era limits on the exorbitant rates and fees charged by prison telecom companies, leaving incarcerated ...

We’re only days removed from the political earthquake in New York City’s mayoral race, but the election calendar matches on: ...

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

Congress is poised to pour tens of billions of dollars into more immigration detention, private jails, and border operations, plus new ICE partnerships with local police and sheriffs.

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 ...

Audience engagement editor Noble Ingram is the audience engagement editor for Bolts. He focuses on facilitating conversations between readers and the newsroom and has worked for a variety of news ...

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 discrimination laws, and a funding crunch depleting their work.

A new Oklahoma law adds to a string of GOP-run states that have undercut direct democracy by piling on onerous new regulations and raising the threshold for signatures.

Some places in Colorado, including Denver, already print ballots in both Spanish and English for every election. But until the passage of SB 1, each city was left to decide whether to provide ...