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

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 ...

A new Oklahoma law adds to a string of GOP-run states that have undercut direct democracy by piling on onerous new ...

Some 30 years ago, volunteers with Bill Clinton’s presidential campaign knocked on Patty Hernandez’s door in Denver.

Republicans already know their nominee for lieutenant governor: John Reid, a conservative radio show host, is the sole candidate despite a failed effort by Governor Glenn Youngkin to push him out of ...

The office of the Chesapeake sheriff does not patrol and rarely makes arrests in the field, but it does run jails and staff courts—two critical access points for federal immigration enforcement.“We ...

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Since 2015, Rikers has been monitored by a federal judge as the result of a settlement in a lawsuit, Nuñez, that sought to address violence and use of force in the city’s jails. In early May, amidst ...

After years of a near-full blockade on parole, Alabama is now releasing more people. But grants remain low, prisons are ...

While participation in SCAAP has waned over the years in the face of shrinking reimbursement rates and a growing aversion toward ICE, over 400 counties received money through the program last year.

Law enforcement in the county has a long history of disproportionately targeting majority-Black neighborhoods, creating vast inequalities in arrests and prosecutions.Black people account for 12 ...