These offices have wide powers over the scope of incarceration and the conditions of detention, issues that are on the ballot ...

Tens of thousands of Nebraskans who’d been blocked for months from registering to vote regained ballot access on Wednesday, ...

Advocates and families of people who died in the Tarrant County jail have called for outside intervention and the resignation ...

Alabama said Alan Miller’s execution by lethal gas would be “more humane.” He writhed and gasped for air in his final moments ...

Advocates in Bozeman, Montana are using a once-in-a-decade chance to reshape local government structure to create more ...

Bolts responds to six reader questions about what’s happening downballot. November is fast approaching, and with it a myriad ...

It’s not all about the presidential race and its few core swing states on Nov. 5: Beyond the battle between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump, voters are deciding tens of thousands of offices and ballot ...

As civil rights groups zero in on Arizona courts as a key battleground, Republicans have placed a measure on the November ballot that would eliminate retention elections for judges, shielding ...

Michael Broadway gasped for air inside his cell at Stateville Correctional Center, a sprawling complex of beige and gray about an hour and a half southwest of Chicago. It was a sweltering mid-June day ...