Ramulus Mason was sentenced to life without parole due to North Carolina’s three-strikes law. The man he shot insists that he ...

A new law will restore voting rights for tens of thousands of people on probation and parole. It’s a departure from other GOP ...

As Chicago’s top cop steps down, police are making fewer traffic stops. But our new investigation finds half of stops are ...

California officials dial back the minor reforms they've made to isolation in prison, four years after Governor Gavin Newsom ...

When Confederate states rejoined the Union after the Civil War, Congress anticipated that white lawmakers across the South would manipulate and weaponize the criminal legal system to prevent Black ...

One morning in late January, civil engineer Juan Sebastián Carvajal-Muñoz was driving to work in Portland, Maine, when federal agents in town for the so-called Operation Catch of the Day immigration ...

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 ...

When residents of Whittier, a majority-Latino suburb of Los Angeles, came out in large numbers last summer to protest a rush of ICE operations, the city’s Republican leaders remained unfazed. Masked ...

A pair of liberal attorneys say they'll be more aggressive in defense of democracy as they try to oust Georgia justices on May 19, as the Callais ruling may make state courts more pivotal. Two liberal ...

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled last week that it’s unconstitutional to automatically sentence someone to life in prison without the possibility for parole for a killing they didn’t participate ...

Last November, the city of Verona, Wisconsin, voted to pull out of the sprawling surveillance network run by tech company Flock Safety in hopes of protecting residents’ privacy and preventing 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 ...