In their final weeks before they lose the ability to pass laws, Republican lawmakers gutted the powers of incoming Democratic ...

A historian of migrant detention responds to questions from Bolts readers on the vast network of local lockups that jail ...

Erin Rode is a freelance journalist based in Southern California, where she reports on the environment, climate change, ...

Nationwide, unhoused people have some of the lowest turnout among all voters. Los Angeles County is trying to change this ...

In the presidential election, the GOP fared better than in 2020 in every state. But in thousands of legislative races across the country, the results were more complicated. The GOP unquestionably had ...

The forum in downtown Flint, Michigan, on the warm early afternoon of Oct. 3, was in many ways a typical election-season scene. A handful of politicians—in this case, candidates for seats on the ...

Earlier this month, California voters turned back toward the tough-on-crime era with the overwhelming passage of Prop 36, a ballot measure that elevates certain drug and theft charges from ...

Alaskans appear to have narrowly rejected Measure 2, a ballot initiative that would have repealed the state’s open primary and ranked-choice voting system. The system, first approved by voters in 2020 ...

Daja E. Henry reports on local criminal justice stories in Mississippi. She is a staff writer for The Marshall Project.

Caleb Bedillion delves into prisons, police and courts. He is a staff writer for The Marshall Project, and collaborates with local news outlets and publishing partners to expose inequities in the ...