Around 2:30 on Wednesday afternoon, the North Carolina State Board of Elections rejected a bid by Republican Jefferson Griffin to toss about 60,000 votes cast in a state supreme court race he narrowly ...
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 & ...
Jentink-Bristol could’ve gotten off probation at 15 had she paid off her fines and fees. But her probation officer told her that she had to remain under supervision until she cleared her debt, which ...
As California continues to grapple with the state’s long and dark history of forcibly sterilizing women incarcerated in state-run prisons, advocates are now rushing to meet a New Year’s Day deadline ...
On Jan. 1, Alyshia Dyer will take office as sheriff of Washtenaw County, Michigan, an event that will mark the union of some strange bedfellows in the county’s criminal legal system: With Dyer at the ...
Are you wondering about some aspect of criminal justice and voting rights in the United States, or are you confused about some rule that structures local politics in your region? Let us know in the ...
There are nearly 500 elections for prosecutor and sheriff scheduled in 2023. Below is our Bolts database of those local elections. States that are not listed on this page have no regularly-scheduled ...
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Bolts closely covers local and state elections and their ramifications for civil rights, voting rights, and criminal justice. Here find our coverage of the 2023 elections in Louisiana, scheduled for ...