Advocates in California have pushed for relief for people convicted of harming their abuser, hoping to build on states across ...

Republicans have dominated Missouri’s legislature for over two decades, but they haven’t entirely controlled state lawmaking, ...

Isolating people inside a small, closet-like cell for weeks, months, and even years on end remains common inside this country ...

Georgia held a statewide election on July 15 of this year, but in Miller County, where just under 6,000 people live near the border with Alabama, you’d be forgiven for having absolutely no idea. The ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

This article is produced as a collaboration between Bolts and Mother Jones. For the first time since the murder of George Floyd by police officer Derek Chauvin in May 2020, voters in Minneapolis and ...

After years of being whittled away by federal judges, the Voting Rights Act unexpectedly survived an existential threat in 2023 when the U.S. Supreme Court upheld what’s left of the landmark civil ...

This article was produced as a collaboration between Bolts and The Intercept. Alan Miller had spent the six months leading up to his execution confined to his cell. Though Miller was never given an ...

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 ...

The water system that provides for the entire Spirit Lake Reservation in North Dakota has been contaminated with dangerous levels of manganese that have made the water undrinkable since May. For Lonna ...