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

Southern California, where she reports on the environment, climate change, housing and homelessness.

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 ...

This county lockup in Flint goes far beyond most in promoting civic engagement. But the jail still cuts people off from 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Alaskans appear to have narrowly rejected Measure 2, a ballot initiative that would have repealed the state’s open primary and ranked-choice voting system.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 ...

Alaska’s predominantly Native regions delivered huge margins against repealing the state’s new elections system, despite facing continued logistical challenges to voting.

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