A widespread data-sharing program highlights financial ties between local police and immigration enforcement—and how even ...

The resounding defeat of Ohio’s Issue 1, a constitutional amendment that would have undercut direct democracy in the state, received wall-to-wall coverage last week because it salvaged the prospect ...

Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner, a national figurehead of the so-called progressive prosecutor movement, survived impeachment proceedings initiated by Republican lawmakers soon after he ...

Philadelphia voters will choose whether to create an independent body to investigate dangerous conditions that have plagued ...

Advocates pushed the city to prioritize longer-term housing during sweeps, but the policy's future is uncertain in the face ...

Planned Parenthood stopped offering abortion services in Wisconsin after the Dobbs decision in 2022, fearing that a 19th-century law would soon kick in and ban abortions in the state. Last fall, when ...

Some of Joseph Jones’ earliest memories are of visiting his father in prison. Then abandonment, when his parents left him in North Carolina and moved to New Jersey after Jones’ father was released.

After almost two years of inquiry, state officials in Minnesota released a blistering assessment of the Minneapolis Police Department (MPD) in late April, documenting what it called “a culture of ...

Donald Trump’s promise of “mass deportations” looms over millions of people who live in the United States. But the infrastructure to detain immigrants didn’t start with Trump. U.S. Immigration & ...

Conservative judges have chipped away at voting rights and put the Voting Rights Act through renewed stress over the last decade. They’re now set to gain new allies with the incoming Trump ...

Prisons across the United States run on incarcerated labor. People behind bars cook food, sew clothes, clean facilities, manufacture goods, and even work in dangerous industries like agriculture and ...