After Chicago police arrested Luis Gonzalez on an illegal gun possession charge in 2022, getting out of jail was his ...

The closure of an infamous jail kicked off a process for community members to imagine what should come next. St. Louis city leaders heard them out, but also made their own plans.

Ever since the Arizona Supreme Court upheld a near-total abortion ban this month, pro-choice advocates have rushed to reverse it. They’ve pushed the GOP-run legislature to repeal the law, to no avail ...

Among the many ways Oregon has been at the vanguard of making voting easier, perhaps none is more significant than its 1998 ...

State Public Defender Rémy Starns holds a monthly virtual gathering with the lawyers in charge of Louisiana’s 42 public defender offices. “Coffee with Rémy,” as he calls these meetings, has become ...

Michael Pernick, a voting rights lawyer at the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, depends on precinct-level election returns to bring many of his lawsuits. He needs that granular data to analyze whether local ...

When a state made cuts to Medicaid, depriving people of access to health insurance, the crime rate increased: That’s the finding of a new academic study, supported by the National Institutes of Health ...

This article was produced as a collaboration between Block Club Chicago, a nonprofit newsroom focused on Chicago’s neighborhoods, and Bolts, a nonprofit publication that covers criminal justice and ...

Reporting on immigration, I have often thought that there are really two borders between the U.S. and Mexico: the physical line between countries that migrants risk their lives trying to cross, and ...

Pennsylvania will hog the election spotlight on Tuesday. Far from the tumult of March, the commonwealth holds its primaries on April 23, a day it shares with no other states. On the menu? Summer Lee ...