SCOTUS allows states to keep accepting ballots that arrive after Election Day, even as conservatives on the court continue to ...

Mesa’s longtime partnership with ICE has emerged as a major fault line in the July elections, as organizers work to limit ...

After a busy stretch in May and June, the elections calendar is quieting down. Only one state is holding its regular primaries in July. It just so happens that this one state, Arizona, is hosting a ...

Solitary confinement is widely recognized as harmful to people with serious mental illness. In 2021, Colorado lawmakers passed a law intended to limit the practice in jails. Five years later, people ...

Colorado jails continue to put people with serious mental illness in solitary confinement, even after lawmakers passed reforms in 2021 that were aimed at limiting the practice, according to this new ...

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 ...

Santa Clara District Attorney Jeff Rosen has twice now brought felony conspiracy and vandalism charges against Stanford University students who occupied a campus building in 2024 in protest of ...

LaDerrick Campbell has an IQ in the 60s. His defense counsel described him as “the most profoundly mentally ill client” they had ever encountered. Daniel Blank’s confession was coerced; one of the ...

The violence of Trump’s immigration crackdown in cities across the country and the killing of protesters by federal agents have put pressure on local leaders to change their approach to federal ...

Morris mostly lived in solitary confinement from the time he went to prison in 1978, the year “Grease” was released, until he got out in 2017—alone 23 hours a day inside a cell the size of a parking ...

On the afternoon of August 1, 1993, the Talladega County Sheriff’s Department got a call to check out the ballfields in Munford, Alabama. When they arrived, they discovered a man’s badly burned body ...