Some 30 years ago, volunteers with Bill Clinton’s presidential campaign knocked on Patty Hernandez’s door in Denver.

After years of a near-full blockade on parole, Alabama is now releasing more people. But grants remain low, prisons are ...

In a populous city in southeast Virginia, a Republican sheriff who calls himself “Detain ’Em Dave” faces a race to the right ...

Democratic U.S. Representatives Mikie Sherrill, left, and Abigail Spanberger are running for governor. Spanberger is running uncontested in Virginia’s primary while Sherrill faces five opponents in ...

Latoria George’s home was in bad shape. The apartment in Baton Rouge, where she’d lived for four years, had no heat and no ...

When Australia holds its federal elections on Saturday, it’ll do so with the requirement that all eligible citizens head to the polls and vote. If they don’t, the Australian Electoral Commission will ...

In the early-morning twilight on a cool Friday in April, a half dozen people gathered in a small parking lot in the San Diego neighborhood of City Heights. It was quiet, before the working-class ...

Nearly 600 Michiganders who expected to die in prison will now get a shot at a different outcome. Michigan’s supreme court ruled last week that it is unconstitutional to impose an automatic sentence ...

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.

Don’t miss a record-breaking supreme court race, mayoral contests all over the map, congressional special elections in Florida, and more. Also on the menu in April: There are several mayoral contests ...

Update (March 29): Louisianans on March 29 rejected Amendment 3, the measure that would have paved the way for more children to be moved to adult criminal courts, by a large margin of 66 to 34 percent ...