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

Congress is poised to pour tens of billions of dollars into more immigration detention, private jails, and border operations, ...

Chicago’s public defenders are among the best-resourced in Illinois, but even there, massive case loads have attorneys and investigators stretched paper-thin. The Cook County Jail has swelled under ...

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

In this complex chamber, some Democrats and independents are caucusing with the GOP while two Republicans don’t. The GOP hopes to strengthen its numbers, and many districts could change hands based on ...

Who are the local and state officials responsible for counting, canvassing, and certifying elections? On this page, Bolts maps out each state’s system. It lays out who is responsible for the different ...

Our database compiles, state-by-state, the local officials who are responsible for administering elections at the county and municipal level.

Bolts invited three organizers in Arkansas, Idaho, and Ohio for a roundtable to discuss the attacks on ballot initiatives they are each fighting in their states, and lessons they’ve learned.

State supreme courts have come under a brighter spotlight as battlefields for some of today’s most pressing issues, from abortion rights and climate to extreme sentencing and ballot access. And ...

In 2018, fierce organizing by immigrants’ rights groups led to a sea change in North Carolina: sheriff candidates who promised to stop collaborating with the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement ...

Faced with popular initiatives to protect abortion rights and other measures they dislike, state Republicans are passing new bills that local advocates say will hollow out direct democracy. Organizers ...