Two incarcerated journalists wrote a new book on their own experiences with solitary confinement and its use in prisons. Ask ...

The cameras are mounted across downtown New Orleans: hanging from balconies on Bourbon Street, bolted to the exterior walls ...

Andrew Pantazi is a Jacksonville-based investigative journalist who reports on the forces shaping Florida’s democracy. His ...

Florida’s supreme court blessed the 2022 GOP gerrymander, weakening a key provision of the voter-approved Fair Districts ...

The democracy vouchers program hands residents $100 to donate to local candidates and it’s credited with broadening civic ...

An Alabama teen was shot alongside his friend, then prosecuted for his killing. His case highlights a particularly harsh ...

A redistricting expert answers questions from Bolts readers about the effort to redraw Texas’ congressional map, and its effects on communities of color and political representation.

Chicago’s public defenders are among the best-resourced in Illinois, but even there, massive case loads have attorneys and investigators stretched paper-thin. The Cook County Jail has swelled under ...

In North Dakota as elsewhere, Native voters face a triple threat: judges targeting the VRA, Trump officials hostile to discrimination laws, and a funding crunch depleting their work.

“An Egalitarian Pressure”: Australia Has Been Requiring People to Vote for 100 Years As Australia compels voters to show up at the polls this weekend, a scholar lays out the genesis of 'compulsory ...