Deputies in Tarrant County put the thumbprint of a man who was brain dead on his release form, highlighting how jails scramble to keep deaths from being investigated. His family, organizers, and a ...

In Culver City, California, students are trying to drum up support for a November ballot measure to let 16- and 17-year-olds ...

This story is part of Bolts’ series on sheriffs in the run-up to the midterms; read more on Maryland, North Carolina, Washington, and Wisconsin. When New York legislators approved the state budget ...

Below are the candidates who filed to run for prosecutor by the state’s filing deadline. The information was obtained from state election officials. Candidates for prosecutor in Arkansas do not run ...

The 30 Prosecutor and Sheriff Races that Will Shape Criminal Justice Next Week Michael Barajas, , Daniel Nichanian, April 19, 2022 ...

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Congressional races will take center stage on Nov. 3, but they’re just the tip of what to watch. Prosecutors and governors, attorneys general and sheriffs, school boards and mayors, utility ...

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 ...

When Danny Tarkenton learned that federal agents had shot and killed Renee Good and Alex Pretti in Minneapolis last winter, she felt concerned that her local officials would not push back should ...

Throughout Abron Arrington’s decades-long incarceration in Colorado, he often found himself in solitary confinement—not because he was causing trouble, but simply because he refused to work. He didn’t ...

Editor’s note: The GOP-run legislature passed this bill in September 2024, sending it to Democratic Governor Roy Cooper’s desk. After Cooper vetoed the bill, Republican lawmakers overrode his veto in ...

Jacob Biba is a freelance journalist in North Carolina. He previously worked at the Asheville Citizen Times where he reported on Hurricane Helene, healthcare, politics and local government.