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

The recent ruling by the state supreme court has heightened tensions in the county attorney race in populous Maricopa County, ...

Changes to indigent defense in Louisiana could stretch an already-underfunded system and erode the quality of representation ...

Bolts covers prosecutor and sheriff races around the nation. Below are the candidates who filed to run for prosecutor and sheriff by Arizona’s filing deadline for major-party candidates. The ...

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 ...

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

Massachusetts prison officials put Elosko Brown in isolated housing in 2020 after accusing him of participating in an altercation with guards that January at the Souza-Baranowski Correctional Center, ...

The Texas supreme court closed out 2023 by blocking an abortion during a medical emergency, forcing a woman to flee the state. Just days before Christmas, Wisconsin justices struck down the state’s ...

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 ...